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[Abel Deuring <abel.deuring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sooryy, hit the "snd" button too early.

On 13.04.2011 11:38, Abel Deuring wrote:
> 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.

Based on what I remember from this talk, I think it is not too hard to
at least avoid the worst accessibility mistakes if we have a kind of
checklist for reviews.

Abel