12.10 accessibility

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 04:01:42AM EST, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I wouldn't consider 12.04 to be a release behind 12.10, especially if
> you're going to move up to 12.04.1 and 12.04.2 and so on. 12.04 is an
> LTS release and will be supported for five years. 12.10 will only be
> supported for 18 months.
> 
> I'm not saying you shouldn't want to move up to 12.01. I'm just saying
> that these are different releases with different conditions, so I
> wouldn't consider one to be behind the other. It depends on what you
> plan to do with this install.

I'd also like to add that since unity 2D is no longer available from 12.10 and beyond, there is somewhat of a regression in desktop accessibility and usability. There will be efforts made to fix this, but our timeframe is the next LTS. In fact, due to the accessibility team's limited resources, we will only be targeting LTS releases so far as overall desktop usability and polish goes. There are far too few developers working on accessibility, and there is far too much to cover and ensure a deacent experience in a 4 month time frame. I say 4 months, because thats approximately how long we have per cycle for feature development, and rest assured most of the functionality work required for better accessibility is not considered a bug fix.

Luke