Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell

2010-03-31 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Owen: Many thanks to the GNOME Shell team for writing this and the WIKI page. It is very promising to see accessibility included in the roadmap. I have a few questions: 1) I believe accessibility should be a requirement for GNOME Shell for GNOME 3. Does the presence of it in the roadmap

Re: Piwik

2010-01-26 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Stormy: Neat! Do you (or someone) have specific examples of pages where this has been done? For example, the URL of a page as well as a pointer to the source code behind that URL that's maintained somewhere in git? Thanks, Will On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Thanks

Re: Piwik

2010-01-26 Thread Willie Walker
of some sort, but I'm not sure what to use. Thanks! Will On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Willie Walker william.wal...@sun.com wrote: Hi Stormy: Neat! Do you (or someone) have specific examples of pages where this has been done

Re: Advice requested on deprecating AT-SPI/CORBA

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Walker
(Hrm, I'm obviously late ;-)) :-) As a potential solution, we can modify the AT-SPI/CORBA *.desktop file to key off of a new gconf key, /desktop/gnome/interface/at-spi-corba. The existing /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility key will be used everywhere else as normal, but this new key will

Re: Video Hackfest conclusions

2009-12-01 Thread Willie Walker
Sorry for the late reply to this. I'm curious how closed captioning and/or subtitles will be rolled into this. Do you video folks have any thoughts? I'm also curious if we might also want to consider some sort of gconf setting that says give me closed captioning that any video player can

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Walker
applet and the {Sticky/Slow}Keys feedback keyboard applet) would need to be ported. Will On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 20:15 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: Hi Owen: Many thanks for making this a formal proposal for comments. I think we all want to get behind GNOME Shell as a nice whiz-bang feature

[Fwd: Re: [g-a-devel] Need your help: new modules being proposed for GNOME 2.30]

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Walker
FYI...regarding Memphis a11y... Will ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 10:20 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: External dependencies: gmime, vala, Memphis (for libchamplain), libdb (already approved). Memphis is quite unaccessible. It generates an opaque image from OpenStreetMap data

a11y questions for new module proposers...

2009-11-04 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: Here's some really simple questions that all new module proposers should be able to answer for accessibility (note that this applies to things that expose a GUI). It's not an exhaustive analysis by any means, but it will capture some of the most blatant failures. It's so simple,

Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

2009-11-02 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Owen: Many thanks for making this a formal proposal for comments. I think we all want to get behind GNOME Shell as a nice whiz-bang feature to make people want to move to GNOME 3. With the magnification support going into GNOME Shell, the accessibility team is also building in a dependency

Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

2009-10-22 Thread Willie Walker
Thanks Shaun! Epiphany and Evolution also both respond to F7 to enable caret navigation. (And, by the way, though Yelp stores this in GConf, it also responds to F7.) We're seeing more and more applications use an HTML renderer for core parts of their interfaces, such as Gwibber, and Empathy

Advice requested on deprecating AT-SPI/CORBA

2009-10-21 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: We're slated to have the AT-SPI/D-Bus stuff in place for 2.29.2. Things are chugging away and looking positive. I have some questions about some approaches we are going to take and would like some opinions and advice for how to do it better if your stomach is weakened by the

Re: Advice requested on deprecating AT-SPI/CORBA

2009-10-21 Thread Willie Walker
Due to others hardcoding the string atk-bridge in their code (e.g., Firefox and OOo), the GTK+ a11y module has to be named atk-bridge. We could ask Firefox and OOo to not hardcode the name, but we'd end up in a versioning hell with external apps not tied to the GNOME release schedule. So, I'd

Re: Advice requested on deprecating AT-SPI/CORBA

2009-10-21 Thread Willie Walker
Alberto Ruiz wrote: 2009/10/21 Willie Walker william.wal...@sun.com: Due to others hardcoding the string atk-bridge in their code (e.g., Firefox and OOo), the GTK+ a11y module has to be named atk-bridge. We could ask Firefox and OOo to not hardcode the name, but we'd end up in a versioning

Re: Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-26 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Andre: Distros that think that webkit a11y is not good enough in 2.28 are free to ship older module versions that do not depend on webkit, or (better) put additional manpower on fixing the remaining webkit a11y issues. ;-) I hear you, but this seems to go against the idea that

Re: yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

2009-08-24 Thread Willie Walker
the discussion to the gnome-accessibility-list (while I'll do in a follow up). Many many thanks for being supportive of accessibility. You rock. Will Shaun McCance wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 11:54 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: Thanks everyone! Based upon the responses, I think the gap that would

Orca branched for gnome-2-28

2009-08-24 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: Immediately after releasing Orca v2.27.91 today, I branched Orca for gnome-2-28. The gnome-2-28 branch will be used for the remainder of the GNOME 2.28.x cycle and all new work will take place on master. Thanks everyone! Will ___

yelp a11y for 2.28 (was Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?)

2009-08-23 Thread Willie Walker
, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Andre Klapperak...@gmx.net wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 20.08.2009, 08:40 -0400 schrieb Willie Walker: Which projects are going to use it According to the jhbuild 2.28 moduleset: devhelp, epiphany, seed, yelp. And under suggests (no hard dependency): anjuta (for devhelp

Who is using WebKit in GNOME 2.28?

2009-08-20 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: I'm trying to assess the impact WebKit a11y is going to have on GNOME in 2.28. Which projects are going to use it and will there be alternatives for people to use Gecko-based technology if WebKit a11y isn't quite soup yet for 2.28? Note that this is not a slam on the very hard

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-07-20 Thread Willie Walker
, I'm confident that when that list of bugs has been addressed I'll be able to implement support. My concern (again) is discovering additional issues at that point and it being too close to the 2.28 release to do anything about them. --joanie On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 09:43 -0400, Willie Walker wrote

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-07-14 Thread Willie Walker
Just to chime in here - based upon our experiences with Gecko, accessibility support for browsers is no trivial task. Xan and Joanie have been hammering away at an impressive pace so far. Joanie, Xan - what do you think it would take to hit 2.28? Would more people from the WebKit internals

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-06 Thread Willie Walker
Vincent Untz wrote: Willie: do you have any idea when the a11y team would be able to give a +1 for webkit? Being able to know it's okay as soon as possible would definitely help us organize things. I'm CC'ing Joanie, who'll be the person doing most of the work on the assistive technology side

Re: WebKitGTK+ as an external dependency

2009-05-04 Thread Willie Walker
to the help and support of Joanmarie and Willie Walker we have identified many new issues that we have either already fixed or that we'll continue working on. You can see the meta-bug recently opened by Joanmarie to track all the forthcoming a11y progress here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25531

Potential GUADEC/Akademy a11y BOF? (was Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0)

2009-04-09 Thread Willie Walker
, if the response is overwhelming, should we consider making separate BOFs? Will Willie Walker wrote: I'm really excited about GNOME 3.0. There are a lot of great ideas that people have come up with. As people work on new GUI designs, I request that people engage the GNOME accessibility team

Re: GNOME 3.0 Schedule draft; Streamlining of the Platform.

2009-04-02 Thread Willie Walker
For the accessibility portion, here's some strawman stuff that will be solidified soon (I hope): 1) Luke Yelavich at Canonical is planning on looking at speech dispatcher as a proposed replacement for gnome-speech. If he gets support from his management to do the work and is successful at

Re: Planning for GNOME 3.0

2009-04-02 Thread Willie Walker
I'm really excited about GNOME 3.0. There are a lot of great ideas that people have come up with. As people work on new GUI designs, I request that people engage the GNOME accessibility team on their designs. Accessibility is a big selling point for GNOME and I'd really hate to see it take

Orca has branched for gnome-2-26

2009-03-15 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: Orca has branched for gnome-2-26. The branches/gnome-2-26 branch will be used for continued GNOME 2.26.x release and trunk will be used for the GNOME 2.27.x release series. Will ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Modules needing a release for 2.26.0

2009-03-05 Thread Willie Walker
Vincent Untz wrote: Hi all, Here's a list of modules that didn't see a release since quite some time. It'd be nice to be sure that they either had no change at all, or that someone rolls a tarball for 2.26.0 in 10 days. Note that if there's no news for a module before March 16th, the release

Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-18 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: The ditching of Bonobo goes beyond AT-SPI. It also has an impact on gnome-speech and gnome-mag. This is a fair amount of work to pull off and we currently have a dearth of resources to do the work. We're not at the uh oh, we're completely screwed point yet, however. The good thing

Re: D-Bus replacement for AT-SPI Accessibility

2009-02-18 Thread Willie Walker
SPI_ methodsAccessible* methods dasher 5 9 mousetweaks 7 22 gok 15 78 libcspi 29 230 A subset approach makes a lot of sense. I also wonder, however, if just doing

Re: New Desktop Testing team

2009-02-10 Thread Willie Walker
+1 -- I'm very excited about this. Many thanks to the people involved who have the energy and courage to pull this off. Will On Feb 10, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Luis Villa wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Ara Pulido a...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hello, We are proud to announce that a new GNOME

Re: Please block this off-topic crap (Re: Obama -- The Judas Goat)

2009-01-26 Thread Willie Walker
Someone on the Orca list mentioned something about gnome.org having no TXT record: [etha...@moiraine ~]$ host -t txt gnome.org gnome.org has no TXT record I don't know what a TXT record is, so I'm not sure how that would help. But, the user certainly seemed adamant that gnome.org

Re: Time for the annual bugzilla statistics!

2009-01-05 Thread Willie Walker
Believe me, if I had direct control over it, I'd hire Joanie in an instant. She's an awesome contributor and is the type of person every project needs. Will Joanmarie Diggs wrote: For whatever it's worth: Joanmarie Diggs works for Sun on accessibility (mostly Orca). I happen to be a

Re: new module proposal: notification-daemon+libnotify

2008-11-10 Thread Willie Walker
Some ideas for better handling of notifications can be found here: http://live.gnome.org/AlternativeNotificationsUI it looks nice, but where would immediate-action-required notifications be shown? Things like 'your battery is about to die'? Stay-on-top, non-focus-stealing dialogues without any

Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

2008-11-07 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Alp: I'm not sure what you think is being underestimated here. Instead of throwing our hands in the air and despairing at the size of the task, my company (Nuanti Ltd.) and I made the decision to make WebKit GTK+ accessibility happen early in 2008. I'm certainly not throwing my hands up

Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

2008-11-06 Thread Willie Walker
For me, one of the most important problems we face with WebKit is its lack of accessibility support right now. I have a great fear that Alp may have grossly underestimated the scope of the work. I have some confidence, however, that the WebKit folks who were at GNOME Boston should be able to do

Re: new module proposal: notification-daemon+libnotify

2008-11-06 Thread Willie Walker
I would *love* to see this bug get fixed: http://trac.galago-project.org/ticket/91 Will On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:43 +0100, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 17:00 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: I'm more worried about the fact that there has been no release since early 2007 (if I'm

Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

2008-11-06 Thread Willie Walker
hasty here. If we going to switch let's do it for the right reasons. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/ARIA_User_Agent_Implementors_Guide cheers, David Willie Walker wrote: For me, one of the most important problems we face with WebKit is its lack of accessibility support right now. I

Re: New changes for GNOME 2.26

2008-11-03 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Jeff: My assumption is that http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap contains the plans and that projects should add to this if they haven't created their road maps yet. Hope this helps, Will On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:57 +0800, Jeff Cai wrote: Hi, Could I get the information if not considering the

Orca has branched for GNOME 2.24

2008-10-15 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: We just branched Orca for GNOME 2.24. I forgot to do this when we released Orca v2.24.0 (D'Oh!). orca/branches/gnome-2-24 starts with Orca v2.24.1, which was created today. Will ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: GDM trunk will be used for GNOME 2.24.

2008-09-22 Thread Willie Walker
While I disagree with Brian's assessment (I think he tends to lean more to the 'it's OK as long as an able-bodied sysadmin can configure the system for the disabled user' side than the 'let the user be independent' side), I'll support the decision nonetheless. Will Vincent Untz wrote: Le

Re: GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-20 Thread Willie Walker
Brian Cameron wrote: I'm not sure this is a really important regression. You can configure the new GDM to always launch various AT programs as needed. The main lost feature is that users cannot launch AT programs on demand. I'm curious who the you is you can configure. The important thing

Re: GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-19 Thread Willie Walker
, à 17:23 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit : Well...hmm...if I read the answers correctly, I think what I'm hearing is that there are a lot of great ideas, but they aren't done yet. If this is the case, then I think this sounds like a regression. I see nobody jumping in to say it's not a regression

Re: GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-17 Thread Willie Walker
without jumping through hoops. Will Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 10 septembre 2008, à 09:39 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit : Hi: I asked this earlier, but I might have missed the response. Have the accessibility issues been resolved with the new GDM? In particular, does accessible

Re: GDM version used for GNOME 2.24?

2008-09-03 Thread Willie Walker
Hi: I know Jon McCann and company did some proactive work to include accessibility in the redesign (thanks Jon!), but I'm not sure what the status of that is. If they can show that accessible login works, along with the keyboard/mouse/dwell gesturing mechanisms to launch assistive

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-08-06 Thread Willie Walker
Gestures are definitely a very good way to launch the assistive technologies. The work Jon McCann and company are doing with gnome-session and gdm should also make the gestures available in a logged-in session as well. Thanks! Will On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:29 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: On

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-08-04 Thread Willie Walker
there, :-) Will Willie Walker wrote: PS - Bug/RFE logged here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545849. If there are other specific problems that people know about, I really encourage them to log bugs. Otherwise, the team will likely not know about them and they will likely go unfixed. The current

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-08-01 Thread Willie Walker
Yuan, is *very* good and is remarkable in his abilities to diagnose and resolve problems. Will On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 17:56 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: Wow - that polling really does bite. :-( Looks like it's been in there for 6 years! http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/at-spi/trunk/registryd

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-31 Thread Willie Walker
Excellent discussion so far. I'm going to write up a summary shortly. Just to clarify one thing, though, especially since this has come up more than once (at least in e-mail to me): The only downside I found when using GNOME with a11y enabled on my system was that somehow the mousekeys were

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-31 Thread Willie Walker
there shouldn't be any created. I've cc'd Mark Doffman for his imput as he's probably got the most experience profiling current AT-SPI behaviour. Rob Willie Walker wrote: The way accessibility support works is that GTK+ loads accessibility modules (gail and atk-bridge) if it detects

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-31 Thread Willie Walker
Willie Walker wrote: Excellent discussion so far. I'm going to write up a summary shortly. Here's what I'm seeing from this good discussion: PRIMARY ARGUMENTS AGAINST ENABLING A11Y BY DEFAULT: --- 1) Performance. From recent tests, it does

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-31 Thread Willie Walker
Wow - that polling really does bite. :-( Looks like it's been in there for 6 years! http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/at-spi/trunk/registryd/deviceeventcontroller.c?revision=326view=markup To me, it kind of seems rather inefficient for the prototypical use case of mouse motion events, which is to

Re: Proposed module: conduit

2008-07-30 Thread Willie Walker
From Li Yuan regarding a11y: Accessibility is a problem for conduit. The GUI is simple, but the left tree view doesn't support keyboard navigation well. Also one has to drag some items to the right sync area, there is no way to do this by keyboard. And the sync area is not accessible. I

Re: Proposed module: conduit

2008-07-30 Thread Willie Walker
work. Thanks again for your consideration for accessibility! Will John Stowers wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:37 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: From Li Yuan regarding a11y: Accessibility is a problem for conduit. The GUI is simple, but the left tree view doesn't support keyboard navigation well

Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-30 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: I recently had a nice discussion with the release team about the viability of enabling accessibility (i.e., the AT-SPI infrastructure) by default for GNOME. As a result of that discussion, I'm approaching the broader GNOME community with a proposal to do this. :-) Accessibility

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-30 Thread Willie Walker
Alexander Jones wrote: Isn't this a distro decision? Ultimately, I guess the value for any gconf setting in schemas/desktop_gnome_interface.schemas can be whatever a distro wants it to be. What I'm proposing, however, is that the default value that we choose for GNOME is that accessibility

Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

2008-07-30 Thread Willie Walker
on by default: it's far easier for someone without a disability to turn it off than it is for a person with a disability to turn it on. Will Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 30.07.2008, 13:11 -0400 schrieb Willie Walker: Alexander Jones wrote: Isn't this a distro decision

Participate in GOPA! (GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility)

2008-04-30 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: I just want to send out a reminder to let you know GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility stuff is still underway and that there are still tasks available: http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/. We had some really good interest in the documentation task and Vincent Alexander, a

Re: WebKit release cycle and dependency request

2008-04-17 Thread Willie Walker
Accessibility = In the last few weeks we've started to look at formal accessibility support for document navigation and manipulation. The first WebCore patches have landed and we intend to provide AT-SPI accessibility for the 2.24 release. This is partly in response to requests

Re: WebKit and GNOME

2008-04-02 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: Just my 2 cents here: I would definitely object to WebKit being the de facto rendering engine if it did not support accessibility. In addition, as WebKit accessibility work is done, I recommend looking at the existing AT-SPI implementation done in Gecko as a potential model for how

HTML Widgets a11y (was Re: GSOC 2008 advice)

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Walker
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 Behdad for seeing this message and thinking of me. :-) For HTML accessibility, the best support is provided by the Gecko engine that's in Firefox 3.

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

2008-02-28 Thread Willie Walker
(the accessible thing) about GNOME and its technology, is ARIA the best approach to make dynamic web site accessible to GNOME users? and how do I test those ARIA roles on GNOME? On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Willie Walker[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm retitling this because I was just

Orca branched for GNOME 2.22

2008-02-25 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: With the release of Orca v2.21.92, we've branched Orca for GNOME 2.22. The Orca v2.21.92 sources represent the beginning of the branch (svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/branches/gnome-2-22). Thanks everyone! Will ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: GNOME's testing strategy for GUIs

2008-02-16 Thread Willie Walker
David Bolter wrote: To my mind, adding regression tests is like spending 1 hour to save 100. Definitely. :-) It also gives me piece of mind when a refactor is done, and it never forgets those special cases that we sometimes forget about when doing manual testing. You can also build them up

March 2008 Linux Journal has articles on GNOME Accessibility

2008-02-15 Thread Willie Walker
Hey All: Just a quick note -- Eitan Isaacson and I have GNOME accessibility articles published in the March 2008 Linux Journal. Mine is on Orca and Eitan's is on Accerciser. This is exciting stuff to me because it helps get our GNOME accessibility story out to a large range of mainstream

Re: GNOME's testing strategy for GUIs

2008-02-15 Thread Willie Walker
Hey All: Great discussion so far. I just want to add something about why regression testing is important to me. In the Orca project, we have a regression test suite that we use regularly. It helps give us great sanity checking that our changes and bug fixes don't introduce new problems.

GNOME's testing strategy for GUIs

2008-02-14 Thread Willie Walker
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 just don't know it. What is the automated testing strategy for GUIs in GNOME? Is there a well defined way to create a 'make test' target and have it do the

Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-11-16 Thread Willie Walker
I definitely like the mockups -- nice work! Regarding the mouse keys settings, one needs to take into consideration that the target users of this are people with differing physical abilities who may need finer control over the parameters. This might possibly result in more knobs and dials,

Re: Leaving gnome-mag maintenance

2007-11-12 Thread Willie Walker
Carlos: It's been a pleasure to work with you over the past year. Your work on gnome-mag is greatly appreciated and we're going to miss your energy. Do you have any maintainers in mind and/or ideas for where to take gnome-mag? For example, thoughts about where we can fit things in the space

Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-11-07 Thread Willie Walker
Thanks Matthias! I think the main thing to remember is that the settings may seem too finely granular for people who don't have to use them. But, the granularity allows the target user to fine tune their experience to get the most effective experience and highest throughput. Will Matthias

Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-11-02 Thread Willie Walker
to be adjustable and what the numerical ranges should be. Will Calum Benson wrote: On 1 Nov 2007, at 12:45, Willie Walker wrote: Anyway, my main point is to ask real users about what tasks they typically want to accomplish with mouse keys. Then, figure out the best UI that provides the user

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

2007-10-11 Thread Willie Walker
it demoed during that event. At 2:24 PM -0400 10/8/07, Willie Walker wrote: We discussed MouseTweaks at the summit at think it definitely looks like it provides great functionality for the intended users. Overall, we support the module proposal, though we also recommend working with the GNOME

GNOME Boston Accessibility Summit Summary

2007-10-09 Thread Willie Walker
Hey All: Just wanted to drop a note regarding the GNOME Boston Accessibility Summit. Many thanks for letting us have the room to hammer away on problems and planning, and many thanks to Owen Taylor for all the work he did. I think the GNOME Boston Accessibility Summit went very very well

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

2007-10-08 Thread Willie Walker
, then perhaps the server extension idea is not that important. Thanks! Will PS - Your video really helped a lot with the understanding of why MouseTweaks is important and useful. Willie Walker wrote: Hi Francesco: No problem with replying late - I happen to be up late. :-) I took a look

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

2007-10-06 Thread Willie Walker
and useful tool, and your recordmydesktop video demo of it was great. I've added it to the agenda for today and will bring it up for discussion. Thanks for the effort! Will Francesco Fumanti wrote: Hello, First of all, sorry for replying so late. At 3:24 PM -0400 10/1/07, Willie Walker

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

2007-10-01 Thread Willie Walker
Francesco: If you know of anyone that might even be remotely related to MouseTweaks and could talk about it (e.g., demo, use cases, remaining work, etc.), I'd be really happy to add it to the agenda for the accessibility summit. I'd also like to hear more about onBoard and future plans for it.

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Alex: Thanks for sending out this call for input. :-) Being able to reliably interact with the gnome-panel and its applets via the keyboard alone would be a major boost to its usability. Thanks again! Will On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 04:00 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: Hi list What do we want

Re: GNOME Panel++

2007-09-24 Thread Willie Walker
Willie, Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 10:01 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit : Hi Alex: Thanks for sending out this call for input. :-) Being able to reliably interact with the gnome-panel and its applets via the keyboard alone would be a major boost to its usability. Care

Re: AT-SPI hard code freeze break request

2007-09-15 Thread Willie Walker
this in the earliest version possible since it is a small but fairly significant fix. The above is the opinion of Willie Walker and I with Li Yuan's consent. Those two are not easy to me: the code changes seem okay, but I know nothing about this code base so I can't know if it can have

Orca hard code freeze break request to handle impending Firefox changes

2007-09-13 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: The pychecker fixes from earlier this week were the result of us looking hard at some impending Firefox changes. Thanks for letting us get those in. :-) Now for the real problem... We've been working with the Firefox team and the AT-SPI maintainers on an approach to allow applications

Re: Orca hard code freeze break request to handle impending Firefox changes

2007-09-13 Thread Willie Walker
We tested and tested and could not find any regressions. Thanks everyone! Committed per the patch. Will On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:27 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: Le jeudi 13 septembre 2007 à 17:06 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : Le jeudi 13 septembre 2007, à 10:33 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit

Orca hard code freeze break request for pychecker errors

2007-09-12 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: In prepping for a different problem we're investigating with the Firefox team, we've been running pychecker on the Orca sources. We came across two serious problems. The first is that one of our scripts (the one for nautilus) was importing a module that no longer exists. The second

Re: Orca hard code freeze break request for pychecker errors

2007-09-12 Thread Willie Walker
Thanks everyone! Committed the patch to exactly as it was given to you. Will On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:05 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007, à 17:03 +0200, Frederic Crozat a écrit : Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 10:52 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit : Hi All

Equivalent of viewcvs *checkout* feature for web interface to svn?

2007-08-24 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: Ever since we moved to SVN, I've really been missing the *checkout* feature that we used to have with the old web interface to CVS. With the *checkout* feature, I was able to maintain documentation in our CVS module and just point people to the *checkout* path. For example:

Re: Equivalent of viewcvs *checkout* feature for web interface to svn?

2007-08-24 Thread Willie Walker
Well now, how simple is that? I had been beating my head against the wall for months trying to figure out the magical incantation only to find it was too simple. Thanks everyone! Will On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 10:19 -0700, Brad Taylor wrote: I've not been able to figure the equivalent of this

GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once

2007-08-09 Thread Willie Walker
Sorry to send this to desktop-devel, but I recall this error coming up at a talk at GUADEC. Someone from the audience yelled THAT'S BEEN FIXED!!!: GThread-ERROR **: GThread system may only be initialized once. aborting... We have people pinging us on the Orca list about this,

Re: Proposed module: accerciser

2007-07-31 Thread Willie Walker
I fully support the inclusion of accerciser. Members of the Orca team have been using it with good success, and it's accessible to boot. Furthermore, the maintainer(s) have migrated it to the new pyatspi bindings, which alleviates any concerns I had. Will On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 23:09 +0200,

Orca branched for GNOME 2.20

2007-07-29 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: With the release of Orca v2.19.6, we've branched Orca for GNOME 2.20. The Orca v2.19.6 sources represent the beginning of the branch (svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/branches/gnome-2-20), and we will soon be starting some aggressive refactoring work on the trunk. Between now and the release of

Alpha version of Unified Python Wrapper for AT-SPI are checked in

2007-04-18 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: At CSUN in March, Peter Parente and I sat down to talk about a unified Python wrapper for the AT-SPI: http://live.gnome.org/GAP/PythonATSPI The main goals were: * To create a single Python wrapper for AT-SPI reusable across all Python assistive technologies and test tools for

Re: How hard would making lists of major user-oriented changes by feature freeze be?

2007-04-10 Thread Willie Walker
Quick question: How hard would it be for you (as project maintainers) to make a list of major user-oriented changes in your module (since the last stable release) and send it to gnome-doc-list by feature freeze? This would include things like changes to the interface, new features and how

Re: Proposed module: Accerciser

2007-04-03 Thread Willie Walker
Pete - I see that the accerciser module still uses a *.zip file of code zipped up from LSR. This seems a little strange to me. For GNOME 2.20, I think it is important to get rid of this *.zip file and migrate to the new 'official' Python bindings for AT-SPI that you and I are working on for

Re: Proposed module: Accerciser

2007-04-03 Thread Willie Walker
. Thanks! Will On 4/3/07, Willie Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete - I see that the accerciser module still uses a *.zip file of code zipped up from LSR. This seems a little strange to me. For GNOME 2.20, I think it is important to get rid of this *.zip file and migrate to the new

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-07 Thread Willie Walker
Hi: Making it accessible would be rather nice too... it hasn't worked well with high contrast themes for years[1], and I'm guessing screenreaders can't do much with it either. Thanks for bringing this up, Calum! Orca definitely has issues with it:

Re: [gnome-love] GNOME Goal #3, It's time to share your love!

2007-03-07 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Claudio: Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Accessibility; Hm, that's because of the 'Utility' category. If you remove it, orca will appear only under the Accessibility menu. Don't know why dasher uses both, though. Thanks! With this line, things end up looking good:

Re: [gnome-love] GNOME Goal #3, It's time to share your love!

2007-03-07 Thread Willie Walker
Hi: I need a little hand-holding on this one for Orca. :-( Orca (http://live.gnome.org/Orca) is a screen reader for people with visual impairments. When I build/install Orca from SVN on Ubuntu using the existing orca desktop file, it ends up in the Applications-Accessibility menu. I

Re: Updating our list of GNOME contributors

2007-03-06 Thread Willie Walker
Sure and: Rich Burridge Joanmarie Diggs Lynn Monsanto Thanks! Will Bill Haneman wrote: Hi Vincent: I've never been included in the Gnome contributors' list. I reckon it's about time! Bill Haneman also Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Di\xf3genes Li Yuan Harry Lu David Bolter Padraig

Orca branched for gnome-2-18

2007-03-05 Thread Willie Walker
Per the instructions at http://live.gnome.org/MaintainersCorner, we have created a new branch of Orca for GNOME 2.18. Note to you wonderful translators who are still working away, I'm not sure of the appropriate svn terminology to describe the revisions at the time I made the branch. Here's

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

2006-11-01 Thread Willie Walker
, Willie Walker wrote: Hi All: This has festered for a little bit without further comment, so I'd like to poke it one more time to try to get this in for the GNOME 2.17.2 tarballs. Please speak up if you disagree and/or don't like the proposed patch (and you have a constructive alternative

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

2006-10-27 Thread Willie Walker
://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362457 Thanks! Will On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 19:18 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: Hi All: As part of the GNOME Boston 2006 Accessibility Summit, and as part of the larger GNOME testing discussions, we would like to propose that accessibility is enabled by default

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

2006-10-17 Thread Willie Walker
be able to work up a patch that does the right thing? It might save us a lot of time. Thanks! Will On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 08:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:20 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: I'm not sure I understand the question, but you can manually get and set the key

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

2006-10-16 Thread Willie Walker
a11y by setting the key to False. I hope this addresses the concern you raised. Will On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:10 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 20:32 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: I'd say that the best way to do this is like the code for G_DEBUG, just check gnome version

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