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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can help make things better if you want to. Searching for someone 
responsible that you can complain to isn't going to be a productive use 
of your time. I know accessibility on Ubuntu is weak, both in terms of 
its delivered experience and the process issues that mean things are 
designed visually and accessibility is tacked on afterwards rather than 
being designed in from the start. I saw this article today which is 
quite interesting, mainly focussing on traditional development 
organisations, but I think we need to get accessibility blended into the 
culture of the Ubuntu project which is an interesting challenge for an 
open development community. 
https://www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog/2012/04/17/how-does-an-organization-blend-accessibility-into-its-culture/
We have to make accessibility something that is there by default and by 
design, not just something to be fixed afterwards (like the global menus 
all using checkbox menu items with no hints initially, the indicators 
still being nonsensical, the HUD and dash and launcher being silent in 
Unity3D, the shorcuts overlay being non-keyboard focussable, the whole 
Nux layer being out of the scope of compiz zoom and filters etc. etc.)
I put together a smoke test document of things I think should work as a 
minimum, it isn't there yet.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4K_nZ5zzQKrKExENU0OvfKja0L4UCBgLpFBsemoQF8/edit
You can help by filing short individual bug reports about discreet 
things that are wrong and need fixing. There are loads of things broken, 
I filed quite a few bugs but I know I could spend hours and hours 
finding more. Even more help would be fixing some of these.

Alan.