Re: Proposed module: conduit

["John Carr" <john carr unrouted co uk>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> From Li Yuan regarding a11y:
>
> "Accessibility is a problem for conduit. The GUI is simple, but the left
> tree view doesn't support keyboard navigation well. Also one has to drag
> some items to the right "sync area", there is no way to do this by keyboard.
> And the "sync area" is not accessible. I suspect accessibility work is need
> by goocanvas.
>
> See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545429
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545430
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545431
>
> Li"
>

I was asked to give an update on a11y.

One of the above bugs has now been closed as invalid (The treeview
supports the standard keyboard operations).

I've been doing some work on 545431 and think that i'd need to patch
goocanvas, pygoocanvas and pygtk to provide the proper experience. I
hope that the pygtk patching will be enough to close the bug, though.
See [1] for more information.

We've talked a little about 545430. It should follow shortly after
some other usability tweaks.

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2008/08/04/conduit-and-accessibility/

John