Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>
> Para: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>; Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>
> CC: "marketing-list gnome org" <marketing-list gnome org>
> Enviado: viernes 2 de diciembre de 2011 19:11
> Asunto: Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign
> 
> [...]
>>>   Do we have any specific improvements (and the reasons why they're 
>>  important
>>>   - or the people for whom they're important) to point to?
>> 
>>  When we met last we discussed having a short list of the tasks that
>>  the funds will be directed towards. I still think that's a good idea.
>>  It can be an indicative list. ;)
>> 
> 
> These are the main tasks you could help us to accomplish :
> 
> 1. Performance Improvements
> Many users and developers complain frequently about performance with respect to 
> GNOME accessibility, both the tools themselves (e.g. Orca) and the performance 
> degradation seen in applications when accessibility support is enabled for the 
> session -- even when no assistive technologies are being used. This latter issue 
> is frequently cited as the cause for developers not enabling this support as 
> well as for the community and distros being unwilling to enable this support by 
> default.
> 
> 
> 2. GNOME Shell Magnifier track focus and caret
> GNOME Shell Magnifier does not track focus or the caret. As a result, GNOME 
> Shell Magnifier users who need to use preferentially the keyboard must either 
> regularly move the mouse to see the active area, or use Orca to cause the area 
> of interest to be displayed by the magnifier.
> 
> 
> 3. Improved and Increased Access to Application and Toolkits
> The Accessibility team would like to provide more compelling access to 
> currently-supported modules and implement support for modules which are 
> currently not supported due to problems with their accessibility implementation. 
> This requires collaboration between our team and the teams whose applications 
> and toolkits we would like to provide access to. The most remarkable cases are:
>     * Evince, the GNOME document reader, and Poppler, its PDF engine, should 
> reflect the structure of the document (headings, paragraphs, etc.)  and its 
> formatted attributes rather than be a single text object.
>     * WebKitGTK+, the new GTK+ port of the WebKit, the successful free and 
> open-source web content engine, used in the GNOME web browser, epiphany, and the 
> help viewer Yelp, needs some work to make ARIA and HTML5 accessible. Also it we 
> would like to provide support for porting Evolution to WebKitGTK+ and removing 
> the old code and custom widgets to make it accesible. 
> 
> 4. Alternative Input Devices Research
> GNOME has very few options for users who require alternative input device(s), 
> including users with physical disabilities and users with learning disabilities. 
> Because we lack compelling solutions in these areas, we do not have an extensive 
> user population providing us with feedback and requests. In order to ensure that 
> the GNOME Desktop is an environment which is truly universally accessible, we 
> need to provide solutions based on a detailed and accurate understanding of user 
> needs in this area.
> 
> 
> 5. Improved Regression Testing Tools for Applications and Toolkits
> We spend a non-trivial amount of its time triaging and filing bugs introduced by 
> changes in the applications and toolkits GNOME ATs provide access to. It would 
> be much better if these regressions could be automatically detected when they 
> are made so that the problematic changes are identified and not committed. This 
> will enable accessibility developers more productive.
> 
> 
> 6. Bug Fixing
> Despite the best efforts of the teams working on GNOME 3, there will undoubtedly 
> be bugs which are not caught in time. We will not fully know what all is broken 
> until a significant number of GNOME users have worked with GNOME 3 on a regular 
> basis. In addition, there are already a non-trivial number of accessibility bugs 
> logged in GNOME's bugzilla. If we want to provide a truly compelling desktop 
> environment, we need to fix these bugs.
> 
> You can get extended  information about these and another goals in the GNOME 
> accessibilty roadmap <https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Roadmap>
> -- 


I put together all the material produced by the marketing team for the accessibilty
FoG campaign in

https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Marketing/FoG


Cheers,

    -- Juanjo Marin