Re: Separate UI and core processes

2009-01-26 Thread David Bolter
Hi Tristan, The MVC pattern has been around a long time but your suggestion of moving UI into its own process is quite intriguing. The marshalling of data, and the need for a really tight response to user actions, are going to be pain points I think. Still worth some real investigation. Are you lo

Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

2008-11-07 Thread David Bolter
ail server Alp -- really. Did you get the invites to join our user agent ARIA implementor group calls? Apple showed up. > From an advocacy point of view, David Bolter has some ideas on how we > can increase the profile of web accessibility outside the Mozilla > bubble which he'll be s

Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

2008-11-06 Thread David Bolter
Hi Behdad, Yes, ATK support is separate. My point is that a "Grade A" browser should support Web2.0 accessibility. WebKit doesn't yet, so I'm raising that as an issue. cheers, David Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > David Bolter wrote: > >> Well I think the eleph

Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

2008-11-06 Thread David Bolter
Well I think the elephant in the room here is WAI-ARIA support for accessible DHTML (i.e. accessible Web2.0 applications). Last I checked this work is being done for WebKit by Apple engineers, and a Google engineer. Although the Firefox accessibility hackers have trail blazed this work and even pro

Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

2008-11-06 Thread David Bolter
Frederic Peters wrote: > Richard Hult wrote: > > >>> WebKit/GTK+ is the new GTK+ port of the WebKit, an open-source web >>> content engine that powers numerous applications such as web browsers, >>> email clients, feed readers, web and text editors, and a whole lot >>> more. >>> >> Was th

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-08-04 Thread David Bolter
GNOME should be accessible "out of the box", and I'd enjoy being able to tell people it is... so a big +1 from me. cheers, David Willie Walker wrote: Hi All: I recently had a nice discussion with the release team about the viability of enabling accessibility (i.e., the AT-SPI infrastructure)

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-31 Thread David Bolter
Thanks for the quick metrics Mark, they are helpful. Nice to see no extra CPU load... and RAM is cheap and users are priceless, and we aren't talking about a lot of extra RAM it seems. cheers, David Mark Doffman wrote: Hi everyone, Rob Taylor wrote: Hmm, my take here is that the current AT-S

Re: Translator credits (to maintainers)

2008-07-22 Thread David Bolter
Tristan Van Berkom wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Jonh Wendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, folks. This is just a warning about translator names in NEWS file: You should get the translator name from the "Last Translator" field in the .po file, not from po/Changelog. Sometimes the

Re: WebKit release cycle and dependency request

2008-05-01 Thread David Bolter
Hi Alp, You might also find Aaron Leventhal a valuable resource. cheers, David Alp Toker wrote: > Vincent Untz wrote: > >>> Accessibility >>> = >>> >>> In the last few weeks we've started to look at formal accessibility >>> support for document navigation and manipulation. The fi

Re: Update on WebKit accessibility support (Re: WebKit release cycle and dependency request)

2008-04-30 Thread David Bolter
ontent using normal means >> (e.g., arrowing, page up/down, etc.) as well as text selection and >> cut/copy/paste support. > > Scrolling read-only content and focus navigation are built-in, > including the newly minted support for tabIndex. > > > On Apr 16, 2008, at 7

Re: WebKit release cycle and dependency request

2008-04-18 Thread David Bolter
Hi Alp, Thanks very much for this detailed information. I have a couple of questions inline regarding accessibility: Alp Toker wrote: > You may already have heard that the WebKit/GTK+ developers have been > exploring options for a release cycle. Here I'm going to outline our > plans in a littl

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread David Bolter
Hi Maciej, Reposting with the correct URL... Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:14 AM, David Bolter wrote: > > >> Hi Maciej, >> >> Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> >>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote: >>> >&g

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread David Bolter
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:14 AM, David Bolter wrote: > > >> Hi Maciej, >> >> Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> >>> On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread David Bolter
Hi Maciej, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote: > > >> Hi Maciej, >> >> Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief >> comment about your accessibility section below: >> >> >> This

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread David Bolter
Hi Maciej, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > >> >> On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:13 PM, David Bolter wrote: >> >>> Hi Maciej, >>> >>> Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a br

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-01 Thread David Bolter
Hi Maciej, Thanks very much for providing this information. I have a brief comment about your accessibility section below: Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > Hello GNOMErs, > > Some of you may remember me from back in my GNOME development days. > These days I work on WebKit, an open source Web content

Re: HTML Widgets a11y (was Re: GSOC 2008 advice)

2008-03-03 Thread David Bolter
Hi Shaun, A quick note about WebKit and ARIA inline below: Shaun McCance wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 12:40 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: > >> I'm retitling this because I was just deleting GSOC mail -- my inbox is >> flooding and I needed to do some drastic filtering. Many thanks to >> Beh

Re: GSOC 2008 advice

2008-03-03 Thread David Bolter
Hi Shaun, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:18 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > >> One followup, one other suggestion, one followup. >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> * "widgets": Vista, OSX, and KDE4 all have widgets/gadgets/Kthingie

Re: GSOC 2008 advice

2008-02-28 Thread David Bolter
Hi Benjamin. Regarding #4 (compositing effects), please note this thread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2008-February/msg00066.html We will soon be announcing a call for proposals for tasks such as this. Perhaps you should monitor the gnome-accessibility list for a coup

Re: GNOME's testing strategy for GUIs

2008-02-18 Thread David Bolter
To my mind, adding regression tests is like spending 1 hour to save 100. Perhaps what we need is a regression test evangelist/documentation/mentor? Will, I really appreciated your phone call last year answering my questions about the Orca test harness. It sounds like a really great setup, altho

Re: GNOME's testing strategy for GUIs

2008-02-16 Thread David Bolter
"In app" was the wrong phrase actually but you know what I mean :) D David Bolter wrote: > To add some worms... there are also the in app GUI testing frameworks, > such as Windmill and Selenium (for browsers). > > cheers, > David > > Willie Walker wrote: >> H

Re: GNOME's testing strategy for GUIs

2008-02-16 Thread David Bolter
To add some worms... there are also the in app GUI testing frameworks, such as Windmill and Selenium (for browsers). cheers, David Willie Walker wrote: > Hi All: > > I might be opening a big can of worms with this question, and I > apologize if someone is already working in this space and I jus

Re: [g-a-devel] a11y module proposal: MouseTweaks (i.e.: software click)

2007-10-05 Thread David Bolter
+1 I'd like to have this discussion too; especially to include the onBoard folks. (Some thoughts I've had around this: http://mindforks.blogspot.com/2006/12/gok.html) It has been hard to get new developer involvement in GOK; a large C program that has seen many hands, but there have been contr

Re: Status of IBM a11y

2007-06-01 Thread David Bolter
That was painful to read. David Peter Parente wrote: > Hello all, > > Yesterday, IBM decided to change strategies with respect to GNOME > accessibility: > > http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer > > Under this new plan, IBM is no longer supporting development of LSR, > Accercise

Re: Replacing control center menus

2006-12-12 Thread David Bolter
If it is indeed "very much more usable", then you have my vote as long "usable" includes "accessible". http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ cheers, David Bolter Thomas Wood wrote: > Dear Community, > > The gnome-control-center hackers have been hard

Re: Proposal to enable accessibility by default for GNOME development releases

2006-11-01 Thread David Bolter
Willie Walker wrote: > OK - I'll answer my own question - this approach doesn't seem to do what > we want. In testing and testing with this, the problem is that some > assistive technologies depend upon the existence and value of the key > itself: if it's not enabled, they let the user know and th

Re: Proposal to enable accessibility by default for GNOME development releases

2006-10-14 Thread David Bolter
Will, Yes. As we see more and more software consuming the at-spi interfaces (gui testing tools, screen readers, on-screen keyboards, at-poke, gui event loggers) it just makes sense to get as much testing coverage as possible. Let's fix the bugs in the development releases. cheers, David W

Re: gok broken with new libwnck

2005-02-22 Thread David Bolter
Hi I'm going to cross post to gnome-accessibility-devel as this is somewhat high priority I think. We really need a response on how to proceed to fix this one. Is this new API change going to stick? How will GOK maintain compatability with new/old versions of libwnck? (preprocessor directiv