Re: Dasher

[Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com>]

I certainly didn't mean to attempt to minimize the importance of Dasher
with numerical values.  I only meant to inquire whether it was still a
viable tool to be used.  In my opinion, all it takes is just one a11y
user to say "Yes I need it." to make it part of the default
installation.

Bryen


On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 14:09 -0400, David Bolter wrote:
> Thanks Janina. Excellent point. And it is at the edges where innovation 
> often happens.
> 
> For the record, my concern about knowing the number of GOK users is that 
> if there are resource decisions to be made that might impact them, it 
> would be good to know the potential damage. It worries me that I don't 
> have enough resources to give GOK the attention it deserves.
> 
> That said I'm looking to mentor someone for a (co)maintainer role...
> 
> cheers,
> David
> 
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Let's please not judge the value of Dasher, or any a11y package by
> > number of users. This is a seriously slippery slope. By this reckoning
> > a11y may as well go back into the closet. By definition, a11y is about
> > edge cases, minimal user numbers, etc., etc. Else there would be no need
> > for exception casing, because all applications would be tailored at
> > screen readers, or at nonmouse input.
> >
> > A11y needs to be in the default package mix because it meets policy
> > objectives, not because it is used by a majority of users. At the moment
> > that includes Orca, Gok, and Dasher plus their dependencies.
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > Samuel Thibault writes:
> >   
> >> Steve Lee, le Wed 19 Mar 2008 06:57:04 +0000, a écrit :
> >>     
> >>> On 19/03/2008, Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com> wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> Is Dasher a useful tool that is still needed as part of a distro's
> >>>>  default install?
> >>>>         
> >>> Is there any way we can get an idea of numbers of users?
> >>>       
> >> In Debian's popcon.debian.org, among 64688 votes, dasher was
> >> voted 363 times.
> >>
> >> Samuel
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