Re: Getting Tech info out to people

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

There's actually three documents:

1) For users: http://snoringbeagle.net/gag.html
2) For developers: http://snoringbeagle.net/gadg.html
3) For OS distributions: http://snoringbeagle.net/dtg.html

Hope this helps!

Will

Bryen wrote:
> 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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