Re: FoG a11y campaign draft, revised!

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>
> Para: marketing-list gnome org
> CC: 
> Enviado: jueves 15 de diciembre de 2011 0:47
> Asunto: FoG a11y campaign draft, revised!
> 
> 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 the Orca screen reader, I would still be stuck running outdated commercial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.
> 

The list was modified, and the latest version is here:

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

> <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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