Willie will miss the IRC meeting this morning

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hey All:

I need to pick my niece up at the airport this morning, so I will not 
be able to attend the IRC meeting.  Very sorry about that.  Here's a 
few things of recent interest to me:

1) Vincent Alexander's accessibility doc updates: 
http://www.snoringbeagle.net/gag.html.  If you've wanted to review 
this, but have been procrastinating, please give them a look and send 
comments back to Vincent.

2) gnome-panel keyboard navigation for the notification area is 
supposed to be fixed, but I'm still seeing issues on Ubuntu Intreprid 
as of yesterday.  I'd like people to try to confirm this.  For example, 
I cannot use the keyboard to navigate to the wireless status indicator 
or the pidgin status indicator in the notification area.  In addition 
the user switcher applet seems to be somewhat toxic -- once you 
navigate to it, it seems to allow you to navigate only between it and 
another icon (either to the left or right) before you end up landing on 
it again. See also related bugs 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473786 and 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103223.

3) yelp accessibility - they've moved to Gecko 1.9 (the accessible 
Gecko :-)), but something seems broken with the accessible hierarchy.  
I wrote a small test app this weekend to test it out,  but haven't had 
a chance to log a bug yet.  The basic thing that Joanie and I ended up 
running into was that the document frame holding the help content ended 
up pointing upwards to a bizarre ancestry and we couldn't get reliable 
information about the application that came to us via events.

4) Enable accessibility by default for GNOME.  Right now, accessibility 
is enabled by default for development builds (yeah!), and I think we 
might be to the point where we want to propose enabling it by default 
all the time.  I've cleared the idea with the release team and I'm 
ready to propose it to the desktop group for discussion.

5) Finally, GNOME Boston (http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008) is October 
10-13 this year.  It's time to start thinking about planning the 
accessibility summit.  Some of the topics I'd like to add to the list 
are: 1) status of AT-SPI/DBus, 2) Discussion of new API's (e.g., text 
API's) for AT-SPI for GNOME 2.26, and 3) ways to increase our 
visibility and raise awareness of the impact we're having on GNOME and 
the world.

In any case, each of these merits its own separate discussion, but I 
just wanted to throw them out there for now.  If you want to pick up 
the discussion by responding to this e-mail, please change the subject 
appropriately to make sure it indicates the single topic to talk about.

Thanks everyone, and my apologies for missing the meeting this morning,

Will