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[Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 April 2011 09:42, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> What's our policy on making Launchpad accessible? Do we have one?

> We don't have one. Canonical holds accessibility as one of its core
> values, and as such it's something we should aim for. I recall that
> accessibility support was one of the driving factors behind our
> adoption of YUI.

Right, much as I thought.

> I really don't know anything about the technical difficulties involved
> in making Launchpad more accessible, or maintaining whatever
> accessibility we have. If there are some simple things that we can do,
> we should do them.

I'll look into this further. I'm relatively ignorant of what's
necessary and how far removed from that we are.

Who else reading this is interested in accessibility?

> Concretely, it's not something that we're planning on investing in
> over the short term. I'd rather we focus on making our UI adroit.

We can be adroit in different ways, right? :) I understand the
practical and time limitations we have. I don't know, though, how many
people using Launchpad have, for example, sight issues.

Speaking to Penelope Stowe, from the Ubuntu Accessibility team, and
also reading the story of Adrian Hands' last commit [1] prompted me to
take more of an interest in what we're doing.

Like I say, I'll look at how far removed from ideal our current set-up
is. I'd welcome input from others.

1. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19

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