Re: New GNOME2 bug submission page- still needs a lot of love :)

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Last I checked, there were large parts of bugzilla that are basically
completely unusable in links, like query.cgi. And the traditional
bug-reporting interface works from links. So I'm not going to lose much
sleep over it, I'm afraid.

That said, if Steve's[1] rewrite of the tables into CSS can make them
more usable in links as a benefit, that's fine and I'd love to have
that. But I can't take the time to learn accessible HTML when I have a
/lot/ of other stuff to do. I suppose alt text tags for the numbering
should be done too.

Luis

[1] Or anyone else- the pages are in CVS and I /happily/ take patches

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 22:39, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:01:15PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > So....
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi
> [...]
> > *bug people: any usability/layout/quality suggestions, go for it :) I'm
> > also looking at extending the page so that it'll default to 'show only
> > GNOME2 components, but if requested, show all libraries, or all
> > everything, or just GNOME1.4 stuff.' Sound good to you?
> 
> Um ... it's probably not good to say this, since you've gone to a lot of
> work, Luis (and it looks really nice in Galeon), but
> 
> 	links http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi
> 
> is a disaster. This means it's possibly not so cool with things like
> screen readers or other assistive technologies either (it mostly depends
> on how they handle "select" boxes, which links seems to choke on).
> 
> One solution is not to try and solve too many problems on one page and
> make another "simple report" style page which is more text-based.
> 
> I am *really* not trying to stir up trouble here and I agree that a
> simple reporting form is a good idea. It's just a bit hypocritical to
> trumpet all of GNOME's accessibility features and have to put an
> exception in for the bug reporting. That said, I'm not really a good
> judge of what other people consider "usable" (I know what's usable for
> me and that's where I draw the line), so maybe the traditional entry
> page is fine for text browsers, etc.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
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