On Sun, 29 May 2011 19:22:25 -0700 Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 05/29/2011 12:03 PM, Alan Bell wrote: > > >> How about sharing Ubuntu's current official accessibility roadmap with > >> the Lubuntu developers, as a start? ... > > > not a roadmap as such, but I have started drafting a document on the > > Ubuntu infrastructure for accessibility > > http://pad.ubuntu.com/AccessibilityInfrastructure > > Does this mean that, in reality, there is no accessiblity roadmap, for > any Ubuntu variant? No, it means each distribution makes its own accessibility roadmap, since we don't know what each distribution developers are capable of during a cycle. Kubuntu, for example, will have accessible installations and screen-reader this cycle. Xubuntu has not decided on its plans yet. Each variant is in fact a separate distribution, even if we all use the same repositories. > > Thanks. I made a few minor edits. A wiki would be better so there is a > clear history of who edited what when, etc. > > > This will get transferred to the wiki at some point when it is nearly > > complete and the most glaring errors have been fixed. > > I'd suggest just putting what you have into a wiki page, now, so that > history will be maintained as the document is changed. > > What this lacks at this point is any sense of priorities -- *this* is > more important to do first, *that* can wait, etc., or any sense of "to > make a Qt app more easily accessible, to *this*; to make a GTK app more > accessible, do *that*; to create an accessible installer, do *this other > thing*". So it is currently useful as background info, but not in > suggesting "what to do next". > > Also, links to the various things (software, APIs, etc.) that it > mentions would be a great addition. > > > I don't know much about Lubuntu, only that it is based on something > > called LXDE as a window manager and is targeted at really old > > computers. > > Well, or some people just like a leaner faster desktop environment. I'm > surprised to see how many Lubuntu users actually choose use it on > hardware that would support Ubuntu or Kubuntu. > > > Looking at lubuntu.net it seems to be based on GTK, so I imagine just > > installing gnome-orca will pull in speech dispatcher at-spi2 and espeak, > > install onboard and you have an on-screen keyboard too. Does it use > > ubiquity for the installer? > > Yes, but alternative installer(s) are something we want to see as we > move to using real Ubuntu ISO build infrastructure. > > Jonathan > -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
