Re: An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:15:42AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Can you point me to documentation on requirements for participating
> on the release team?  I can read the list archives, but can't post since
> I'm not a member.
> I don't have any formal training in accessibility, just a life time of
> experience.
> Dispite the tone of my messages, I've been a supporter of Gnome accessibility
> since the beginning, and I would like it to succeed.

Note that in the case of Webkit we have been tracking the accessibility
related issues. For every module proposed there is a thread on d-d-l.
Everything posted there is taken into account at the module acceptance
stage.
If accessibility is not reported as a problem, then we likely will not
notice that there is a problem. However, nobody needs to be on the
release-team to change that. We often try to follow the consensus on
d-d-l. So to contribute right now, just raise when something is an issue
(accessibility or anything else).

For WebKit the delay in accepting for a large part was accessibility,
this was also mentioned when we rejected it. This was also mentioned
when it was proposed again:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-May/msg00010.html

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Regards,
Olav