Re: Removing gthtml2 (was Proposed modules for 2.10 wanted NOW)
- From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>
- To: Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
- Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org, GNOME Hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
- Subject: Re: Removing gthtml2 (was Proposed modules for 2.10 wanted NOW)
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:54:19 +0000
Hi,
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 15:20, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > but personally I'm not
> > too worried about the help browser being inaccessible if the web browser
> > is inaccessible.
>
> If help is inaccessible, the whole desktop is useless from an
> accessibility point of view. It's already true that some users will
> chose web browsers other than the 'GNOME' one, i.e. Mozilla/Firefox or
> even Links/Lynx instead of Epiphany.
Ah, I'd forgotten that the web isn't totally inaccessible just because
Mozilla isn't accessible.
> If GNOME help regresses this much with respect to accessibility, I for
> one would not be willing to make any real claims for GNOME desktop
> accessibility at all. This is a very serious regression for
> accessibility indeed.
I see where you're coming from now, I agree it is a serious regression
for a11y.
Cheers,
Mark.
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