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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/03/12 14:47, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Wait, you mean there's *this much breakage* in a *beta*? 
yes. There are expected to be broken things in a beta, but I do agree 
that if the with-eyes experience was as bad as it is eyes-free right now 
then it probably wouldn't go out of the door.

On the plus side I do believe that the fixes are really quite small, and 
then I expect it will be quite good in comparison to older releases. 
What concerns me the most is that things are not being tested until too 
late. *Designs* are not tested for accessibility. The design team should 
be doing accessibility testing before anyone writes any code. It should 
be known roughly what script an orca user would hear when going through 
the dash or the hud or the menus etc. before they get coded up. This is 
massively easier to do than drawing pictures for the visual design (it 
is just text) and would probably help the design and implementation 
process much more than it would be any kind of overhead.

> I don't use that sort of language lightly on public mailing lists,
yeah, best not to. It doesn't really make your point any stronger and 
then people end up focussing on that and not the broken software that 
needs fixing.

Alan

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