Accessibility BoF in GUADEC

[Juanjo Marín]

Hi there !

I am Juanjo Marin, member of the GNOME accessibility team . I write to this list to inform you that we are going to have BoF about accessibility next August 6th in Brno, Czech Republic.

In the past, blind users said Fedora needs sighted help in order to be installed. In Fedora 18, some users has reported some success and I guess and hope the situation is better in Fedora 19.

Anyway, if any of Anaconda developers are around Brno August 6th, they are more than welcome to join us and discuss about accessibility problems.

Drop me a line if you want to attend or if you only can attend to some specific hours in order to do a better planning if possible.

Cheers,

-- Juanjo Marin

[Adam Williamson]

On 2013-07-03 15:18, Juanjo Marín wrote:
> Hi there !
>
> I am Juanjo Marin, member of the GNOME accessibility team . I write to
> this list to inform you that we are going to have BoF about
> accessibility next August 6th in Brno, Czech Republic.
>
> In the past, blind users said Fedora needs sighted help in order to be
> installed. In Fedora 18, some users has reported some success and I
> guess and hope the situation is better in Fedora 19.
>
> Anyway, if any of Anaconda developers are around Brno August 6th, they
> are more than welcome to join us and discuss about accessibility
> problems.
>
> Drop me a line if you want to attend or if you only can attend to some
> specific hours in order to do a better planning if possible.

FWIW there have been a couple of heated threads about a11y wrt the 
installer on the test@ list lately. The installer *itself* still doesn't 
really have any specific a11y support, though you can apply GNOME's 
useful a11y features to the installer if you run an install from the 
GNOME live image, which is what I've been recommending to people when 
the question comes up.

I think the team would certainly welcome help on improving a11y in 
anaconda itself from knowledgeable folks...

[Leslie S Satenstein]

I would very much like to do a BoF for Fedora 19. We have a lug (www.mlug.ca), with, of course, diehard Linux users. The Lug members are about 55-45-10 French/English(Spanish or Arabic). There are also other lugs in Montreal that are into promoting one distribution or another.  Montreal is very very multinational. Three languages, a group of groups of linux biggots, and a wonderful place to do a degree in Computer science.

Regards

Leslie

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> Subject: Re: Accessibility BoF in GUADEC
>
> On 2013-07-03 15:18, Juanjo Marín wrote:
> > Hi there !
> >
> > I am Juanjo Marin, member of the GNOME accessibility team . I write to
> > this list to inform you that we are going to have BoF about
> > accessibility next August 6th in Brno, Czech Republic.
> >
> > In the past, blind users said Fedora needs sighted help in order to be
> > installed. In Fedora 18, some users has reported some success and I
> > guess and hope the situation is better in Fedora 19.
> >
> > Anyway, if any of Anaconda developers are around Brno August 6th, they
> > are more than welcome to join us and discuss about accessibility
> > problems.
> >
> > Drop me a line if you want to attend or if you only can attend to some
> > specific hours in order to do a better planning if possible.
>
> FWIW there have been a couple of heated threads about a11y wrt the installer on the test@ list lately. The installer *itself* still doesn't really have any specific a11y support, though you can apply GNOME's useful a11y features to the installer if you run an install from the GNOME live image, which is what I've been recommending to people when the question comes up.
>
> I think the team would certainly welcome help on improving a11y in anaconda itself from knowledgeable folks...
> -- Adam Williamson
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