yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

[Willie Walker <WillieWalker charter net>]

Thanks everyone!  Based upon the responses, I think the gap that would
have no alternative accessible solution would be if yelp chose to ship
with a WebKit-only solution.

The unfortunate thing about this is that yelp is quite important for our
users.  Many of them are coming to GNOME for the first time - some from
another platform and others because this is their first exposure to a
graphical desktop.  The documentation available via yelp helps these
users find their way through important information, such as keyboard
access, customization for fonts/colors/icons, how to use a specific
application, etc.

Making documentation inaccessible or otherwise very difficult to obtain
is a serious regression.  It would be something that could potentially
keep new users away from GNOME and push existing ones back to the
platforms they came from.

In other words, access to documentation is a critical component of the
GNOME platform.

So...I'd like to appeal to the yelp developers to keep the accessible
solution turned on by default for 2.28 while we continue our work
towards WebKit a11y for GNOME 3.0.

Will

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 23:22 +0100, Olivier Le Thanh Duong wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Andre Klapper<ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 08:40 -0400 schrieb Willie Walker:
> >> Which projects are going to use it
> >
> > According to the jhbuild 2.28 moduleset:
> > devhelp, epiphany, seed, yelp.
> >
> > And under <suggests> (no hard dependency):
> > anjuta (for devhelp plugin), empathy.
> >
> To give more details, empathy use Webkit for the chat windows when
> using adium-style themes. Even with webkit support enabled, Empathy
> still support the old gtk based theme and use one by default. So I
> don't think this may pose a problem accessibility-wise as the user
> have to knowingly download a theme and configure empathy to use it.
> 
> HTH
> 
> >> and will there be alternatives for people to use Gecko-based
> >> technology if WebKit a11y isn't quite soup yet for 2.28?
> >
> > Distros that think that webkit a11y is not "good enough" in 2.28 are
> > free to ship older module versions that do not depend on webkit, or
> > (better) put additional manpower on fixing the remaining webkit a11y
> > issues. ;-)
> >
> > andre
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