Re: Ideas for upcoming Bolzano GTK+ hackfest

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Aha - the plot thickens as the situation becomes clearer.  :-)

OK, so it sounds like if there is a substantial amount of work to do for 
something(s) related to accessibility where direct contact with the GTK+ 
maintainers/developers would be crucial for success, then we should 
start developing a proposal.

A lot of the a11y issues specific to GTK+ are bugs that just need warm 
bodies to give them some love.  The one main thing I see as being an 
issue that needs to be worked out or to at least get some closure on is 
the solution for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535827.  That 
might be something that Mattias, Brad Taylor, and I could do at the 
RedHat offices in Chelmsford.

However...

Keeping in mind that we'd like to move to a more proactive approach for 
a11y rather than reacting to GTK+ changes, is there a way the a11y folks 
can find out more about future GTK+ plans?  Would the hackfest be an 
opportunity to learn these kinds of things and interact with the folks 
who will be adding them?

Will

PS - Regarding Evince - anything we can do to make it accessible would 
be AWESOME!

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> > At last year's GTK+ hackfest there wasn't a lot of a11y discussion or
> > participation from the people who work on a11y-specific GTK+ features.
> > Since the hackfest is invite-only, I suspect that the right people will
> > only get invited if there is some reasonable list of issues and items
> > to warrant people traveling to attend the event and spending time
> > working on the issues involved.
>
> Well, more exactly, people invited are the ones who have a major GTK+ feature
> in the works already, so we invite them to get face to face with the
> maintainers and other developers, present to them, discuss any remaining
> issues, work them out, and ideally get the work merged in.  So, *going* to
> GTK+ Hackfest to start bringing something up is not the best way to approach
> this.  If someone can start discussion about outstanding a11y issues with GTK+
> and come up with an action plan, it may justify bringing them to the hackfest
> to further that plan.
>
> Cheers,
>
> behdad
>
> PS.  Willie, I'll send you the Evince write-up this week, really.