RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - 2 weeks left

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 7 May 2003 Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> > If there are no consequences--doesn't matter that you haven't even
> > considered how you get to accessible because something is better than
> > nothing--then how can we trust, we for whom this is a basic issue
> > determining whether or not we participate.
> 
> But we _have_ considered how to make epiphany accessible. I don't think any
> new module will be added to GNOME if we think it will _never_ be accessible.

Exactly. 

The only accessible browser at this point is XUL-based mozilla, and we all 
agree that we're not going to add that to the desktop. Epiphany is not 
currently accessible, but the road to adding a11y support to it is pretty 
well known.

Wether we add Epiphany to 2.4 or not matter little to people 
requiring an accessible browser, they have to look outside of gnome 
in both cases. Adding it does matter to other people though. Its a clear 
sign that we have chosen an official webbrowser, which will lead to more 
users, more exposure and more new developers. This means more testing, 
more bugfixing, more development (maybe even a11y development that 
wouldn't otherwise be done).

Delaying this 6 months will hurt the development of our web browser, while 
making zero difference for people requiring an accessible browser (except 
possibly delay the a11y development of epi).

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