Re: Which Yelp version for 2.12.0?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi:

I agree with Murray, looking at this pragmatically.  For those users who 
require it, distros can make RPMs of the old yelp available.  But we 
need to document the known issues and resolution path in those distros, 
and probably add this to a FAQ on the gnome-accessibility-list.

I think this highlights the fact that I need help maintaining and 
testing a11y.  There aren't as many Sun resources on it as there have 
been at some points in the past, and of course the Sun product is 
currently a bit out of date w.r.t CVS HEAD.

The good news is that Kjartan's report seems to indicate that the 
yelp-gecko a11y is "basically working", and although he points out some 
serious issues, they seem like the sorts of things that we could bugfix 
in 2.12.1 and 2.13.  (Perhaps we would not want to change a keybinding 
in a stable release, but making keynav to the sidebar possible seems 
like a feasible fix).

I agree that it makes more sense to focus our limited resources on 
fixing the cvs head yelp problems than on pursuing a 'dual backends' 
approach.  I am hoping the remaining issues are mostly low-hanging fruit.

thanks for listening,

Bill

Murray Cumming wrote:

> [snip]
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> > I'd really hate to revert at this late in the cycle.
> >    
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> Yeah, we made it clear that we wouldn't make yelp wait for ever.
> Accessibility is incredibly important, but it shouldn't hold other stuff
> up indefinitely. This is part of being time-based instead of
> feature-based, so we can get good stuff released. Hopefully distros that
> disagree can ship the older yelp.
>
>
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc murrayc com
> www.murrayc.com
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Kjartan Marass wrote:

> Tried this with the following results:
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> - space doesn't activate a link, enter does
> - tab to the sidebar is impossible
> - f8 to resize the pane is ok
>
> Are there other testcases available somewhere?
>
> Cheers
>  

> Kjartan