sooryy, hit the "snd" button too early. On 13.04.2011 11:38, Abel Deuring wrote: > On 13.04.2011 10:54, Matthew Revell wrote: >> On 13 April 2011 09:42, Jonathan Lange <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> What's our policy on making Launchpad accessible? Do we have one? >> >>> We don't have one. Canonical holds accessibility as one of its core >>> values, and as such it's something we should aim for. I recall that >>> accessibility support was one of the driving factors behind our >>> adoption of YUI. >> >> Right, much as I thought. >> >>> I really don't know anything about the technical difficulties involved >>> in making Launchpad more accessible, or maintaining whatever >>> accessibility we have. If there are some simple things that we can do, >>> we should do them. >> >> I'll look into this further. I'm relatively ignorant of what's >> necessary and how far removed from that we are. >> >> Who else reading this is interested in accessibility? > > /me > >> >>> Concretely, it's not something that we're planning on investing in >>> over the short term. I'd rather we focus on making our UI adroit. >> >> We can be adroit in different ways, right? :) I understand the >> practical and time limitations we have. I don't know, though, how many >> people using Launchpad have, for example, sight issues. > > We could invite an accessibility expert for a lecture at the LP Epic. I > remember a talk by a guy from a German organization for blind people at > a conference (IIRC Eurozope) some years ago, which gave me some > interesting insights.
Based on what I remember from this talk, I think it is not too hard to at least avoid the worst accessibility mistakes if we have a kind of checklist for reviews. Abel _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
