[Accessibility] Priorities, Ideas?

[Christian Hofstader]

All,

For the past six months or so, I have been working more on policy and 
educational issues than on GNU access technology software development. 
These projects are important but, as we find more and more accessibility 
problems in the software (both the AT and applications) we really need 
to focus almost entirely on fixing these issues so the current users can 
enjoy a better experience and new users can appreciate their new found 
freedom along with having a very usable system with which they can do 
all sorts of things they want to do.

I know that Bill Cox maintains a text file of ideas and bugs which can 
be gotten from vinux. Also, Joanmary, the incredibly hard working orca 
maintainer has a bugzilla database set up for  these issues and now we 
are starting a third list. A bit of redundancy isn't bad nor is it a 
waste of our time as we hope our list goes beyond orca and includes 
other tools for people with vision impairment and, hopefully, 
disabilities other than vision impairment.

So, if you have a few favorite bugs that really bother you or some 
features that you would really like to see, please post them to 
address@hidden or if you prefer anonymity, you can send them to 
me directly and I'll post them to the group. You should make sure that 
you are subscribed to address@hidden by sending an email to 
address@hidden with "subscribe" (sans quotes) in the 
subject line.

Also, please feel free to repost this request to any other group where 
you think we may find help and good ideas. Everyone is welcome on the 
accessibility list and the more ideas the better. The access-activists 
list, to which this email is also addressed, is invitation only and is 
intended for a small group of leaders around the AT world to receive a 
minimum amount of email on issues regarding GNU accessibility - if you 
want to join this list, please send me a private email explaining who 
you are (if we don't already know each other) and why you want to join 
the group. Right now, we are not taking any more people working on 
issues regarding blindness or low vision as we already have more than 
enough.

We are starting to assemble a good set of programming volunteers around 
the world and we want to ensure we are using them to best effect.

--
Happy Hacking,
cdh

Christian Hofstader
Director of Access Technology
FSF/Project GNU
http://www.gnu.org, http://www.fsf.org
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