Rant about accessibility testing

[Francesco Fumanti]

Hi,

Here is the overvew page with the mailing lists of GNOME:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

Cheers

Francesco

On 02/19/2010 06:28 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Hi,
> Does Gnome have a development email list? Seems like maybe we should all
> be on there so we can raise hell when they do something um... well... to
> put it delicately, stupid lol.
> Thanks
> Storm
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> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 09:25 -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>> Hi.  These two issues are caused by upstream Gnome.  A bigger question is why
>> does Gnome still talk about accessibility but allow programs to enter the desktop without accessibility?
>> Ubuntu is caught in the middle.  They want to ship an up to date Gnome.  It isn't there fault
>> that Gnome keeps doing things regularly that break access.
>>
>>            Kenny
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:10:40AM -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
>> >  Two key pieces of accessibility software in Gnome used to be
>> >  accessible, but are no longer in Lucid - Yelp and the Ubuntu Software
>> >  Center.  Ubuntu does a terrific job in general insuring packages are
>> >  functional and not buggy before allowing them into the distro.  There
>> >  must be some check-list for accepting packages at Ubuntu.  Why is
>> >  accessibility not on this list?  Isn't this simply a matter of adding
>> >  one extra item to the list of tasks for a package to be accepted?
>> >
>> >  Ubuntu is in a unique position to improve lives for the disabled.
>> >  Simply by raising their standards, Ubuntu can raise the standards
>> >  throughout the FOSS community.  I am amazed that Ubuntu has not taken
>> >  this simple step.  Is there any good reason?
>> >
>> >  Bill
>> >
>> >  --
>> >  Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list
>> >  Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com  <mailto:Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> >  https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
>>