Re: Getting Tech info out to people

[Bryen <suserocks bryen com>]

Sorry, I hadn't realized that the document focused on the technical
aspects.  From what I had read before, I had the impression it was more
of a "how to use a11y functions" for users.  Perhaps I was wrong and
I'll have to re-review the document.

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 12:06 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Bryen:
> 
> There is a GOPA task underway that Vincent Alexander is working on:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/documentation/
> 
> The current drafts are here:
> 
> http://snoringbeagle.net/
> 
> And we have a bug open to set up something to automatically push the docs:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552532
> 
> When all this is in place, I want to update 
> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility to make sure it and its subpages 
> point to the right spot.
> 
> In fact, I plan on dedicating my entire Monday this coming Monday to 
> revisit live.gnome.org/Accessibility and live.gnome.org/GAP to see what 
> can be done about reconciling everything under 
> live.gnome.org/Accessibility and getting things in place.  If you'd like 
> to help, we could attempt to do it via IRC.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Will
> 
> Bryen wrote:
> > We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
> > is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
> > channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
> > get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
> > during non-meeting times.
> > 
> > I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
> > this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.
> > 
> > As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
> > last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
> > GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
> > we couldn't connect the right people to him.
> > 
> > I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
> > put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
> > (We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)
> > 
> > We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
> > in their hearts.
> > 
> 
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