Re: Ideas for upcoming Bolzano GTK+ hackfest

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

Willie Walker wrote:
> Aha - the plot thickens as the situation becomes clearer.  :-)
>
> OK, so it sounds like if there is a substantial amount of work to do 
> for something(s) related to accessibility where direct contact with 
> the GTK+ maintainers/developers would be crucial for success, then we 
> should start developing a proposal.
>
> A lot of the a11y issues specific to GTK+ are bugs that just need warm 
> bodies to give them some love.  The one main thing I see as being an 
> issue that needs to be worked out or to at least get some closure on 
> is the solution for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535827.  
> That might be something that Mattias, Brad Taylor, and I could do at 
> the RedHat offices in Chelmsford.
We can consider the suggestions in 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535827#c65 or any other ways 
to handle accessibility of Firefox and OpenOffice smoothly.

Li
> However...
>
> Keeping in mind that we'd like to move to a more proactive approach 
> for a11y rather than reacting to GTK+ changes, is there a way the a11y 
> folks can find out more about future GTK+ plans?  Would the hackfest 
> be an opportunity to learn these kinds of things and interact with the 
> folks who will be adding them?
>
> Will
>
> PS - Regarding Evince - anything we can do to make it accessible would 
> be AWESOME!
>
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Brian Cameron wrote:
> >
> > > At last year's GTK+ hackfest there wasn't a lot of a11y discussion or
> > > participation from the people who work on a11y-specific GTK+ features.
> > > Since the hackfest is invite-only, I suspect that the right people will
> > > only get invited if there is some reasonable list of issues and items
> > > to warrant people traveling to attend the event and spending time
> > > working on the issues involved.
> >
> > Well, more exactly, people invited are the ones who have a major GTK+ 
> > feature
> > in the works already, so we invite them to get face to face with the
> > maintainers and other developers, present to them, discuss any remaining
> > issues, work them out, and ideally get the work merged in.  So, 
> > *going* to
> > GTK+ Hackfest to start bringing something up is not the best way to 
> > approach
> > this.  If someone can start discussion about outstanding a11y issues 
> > with GTK+
> > and come up with an action plan, it may justify bringing them to the 
> > hackfest
> > to further that plan.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > behdad
> >
> > PS.  Willie, I'll send you the Evince write-up this week, really.
>
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