Re: FoG a11y campaign draft, revised!

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

Bolded bits/comments mine :)

GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project's

 inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many
 dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became an award winning accessible free
 desktop environment.

 "I can testify that I could not have come along as far as I have without
 the work which has been done in GNOME as related to accessibility. Without
 all of the work which was put into things such as screen magnification and
 the Orca screen reader, I would still be stuck running outdated commercial
 assistive technology software on an up-to-date operating system." --Read
 the rest of Robert Cole's story.<link to full testimonial>

(added an 'a' to as)

 With the advent of GNOME 3, we have started down an exciting new road in
 terms of usability, a road we want to extend to everyone, including users
 of all ages and abilities.  In addition, features that make devices more
 accessible are increasingly needed to make some types of device work for
 any user. The GNOME Accessibility team is working hard to accomplish all
 of this; however, we have fewer resources than in the past and many goals
 yet to achieve in order to make GNOME 3 compellingly accessible.

I feel like this paragraph is somewhat repetitive, and have tried to rewrite it below, though to be completely honest, I'm still not happy with it:

With the advent of GNOME 3, we have started down an exciting new path in terms of usability, one which will include users of all ages and abilities. With all the new devices, new features are needed to keep them accessible to everyone, and the GNOME Accessibility team is hard at work to make it so.


 With your help we can start tackling our goals in this area <link to
 jjmarin's list>. Help to make 2012 the Year of Accessibility at GNOME and
 let's make the most usable desktop environment the most accessible desktop
 environment! Donate $25 or more right now and help us reach another
 person.

Same for this one:

With your help we will continue to tackle the many goals of the accessibility team, and thereby make GNOME the most accessible desktop available today. Please help us make 2012 the Year of Accessibility at GNOME! Donate $25 or more today & encourage others to do the same.

Emily

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:

hey everyone,

I went through all of the feedback emails, and here is a revised draft
that I hope responds to all of them. I wanted to keep the text really
short and focused, so kept other materials (the list of our goals and the
full testimonial) accessible by links instead. I also think that our
slogan for the campaign can be:  Help to make 2012 the Year of
Accessibility at GNOME!

We'd like to go live on Friday, so please take a moment to send me your
additional comments as soon as you can. Hopefully, we'll also get a second
testimonial, and we can do a follow-up push with that. (Thanks, jjmarin,
for all your hard work on this!!)

karen
----

GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project's
inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many
dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became an award winning accessible free
desktop environment.

"I can testify that I could not have come along as far as I have without
the work which has been done in GNOME as related to accessibility. Without
all of the work which was put into things such s screen magnification and
the Orca screen reader, I would still be stuck running outdated commercial
assistive technology software on an up-to-date operating system." --Read
the rest of Robert Cole's story.<link to full testimonial>

With the advent of GNOME 3, we have started down an exciting new road in
terms of usability, a road we want to extend to everyone, including users
of all ages and abilities.  In addition, features that make devices more
accessible are increasingly needed to make some types of device work for
any user. The GNOME Accessibility team is working hard to accomplish all
of this; however, we have fewer resources than in the past and many goals
yet to achieve in order to make GNOME 3 compellingly accessible.

With your help we can start tackling our goals in this area <link to
jjmarin's list>. Help to make 2012 the Year of Accessibility at GNOME and
let's make the most usable desktop environment the most accessible desktop
environment! Donate $25 or more right now and help us reach another
person.

----
<jjmarin's 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, 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 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>




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