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[Abel Deuring <abel.deuring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13.04.2011 10:54, Matthew Revell wrote:
> 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?

/me

> 
>> 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.

We could invite an accessibility expert for a lecture at the LP Epic. I
remember a talk by a guy from a German organization for blind people at
a conference (IIRC Eurozope) some years ago, which gave me some
interesting insights.

Abel