Re: [orca-list] Accessibility Testing in Ubuntu 12.04

[Alan Bell <alanbell ubuntu com>]

Hi Petra,

basically the testing is done by humans like me in the community and 
bugs are reported on Launchpad which mostly get fixed at some point. 
This is not good enough, and I have been working on fixing that, I did 
some videos last week showing how completely broken it all is, and these 
were viewed by quite a lot of the developers, and I have been submitting 
testing scripts for using the desktop with orca for a guided manual 
testing tool called checkbox. These will need a bit of fixing over time 
as I was mostly writing them without the desktop actually working 
properly at the time.
I also produced a short document which will hopefully be used by the 
unity team before they release broken stuff again (small bits of 
brokenness we expect and understand in the development release, but the 
current "everything doesn't work" situation is really unhelpful.) 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4K_nZ5zzQKrKExENU0OvfKja0L4UCBgLpFBsemoQF8/edit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJRwpcJBa8&list=UU_6WXjvHxBEChRjA-ch9a7g&index=4&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFVpVN21MbY&list=UU_6WXjvHxBEChRjA-ch9a7g&index=3&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvHj1tLd2IQ&list=UU_6WXjvHxBEChRjA-ch9a7g&index=2&feature=plcp

Yes, I do know that Google docs and Youtube videos are not the most 
accessible of things for a wide audience.

What other things should we be testing for, or what other testing 
methodologies should we use to make it better?


Alan.