Meeting Summary

FoG update

Joanie pinged Bastien and Karen about the proposals. Karen said she would share this task with Bastien.
Joanie forwarded the original proposals to the Board list. Karen initially responded, stating that we'd discuss these proposals on the Board list and/or the upcoming meeting.

Finally dash support on orca was accepted, and included both on master and gnome-3-6 branch.
LINK: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686583.
If nothing strange happens it will be available on 3.6.2 next week.
Piñeiro agreed with Rui Matos and Daiki Ueno to have a 3.6.2 release of Caribou with the most critical stuff.
Joseph explored the re-entrancy problem in gnome-shell and the JavaScript focus tracker. He discounted hypothetical solutions to the problem by trying to execute the functions in a deferred (asynchronous) way using the main loop.
An ugly Gtk+ crasher was found by a user and is now fixed by Cosimo (yay!) Should be included in GNOME 3.6.2. (See bug 687872.)
Joanie did a small-but-big performance improvement for Orca's flat review which will be included in GNOME 3.6.2.
Python 3 has been approved GNOME 3.8.
Orca's been ready since before the 3.6 release, though Joanie is still finding and fixing the occasional bug.
Speech-dispatcher and liblouis seem to be ready to go.
BrlApi is still being tested by Joanie. She submitted a tiny patch to the BrlTTY folks and is testing and bug fixing in Orca.

Joanie has been thinking for a while now that it would be good if the standard-definers/writers and the standard-implementors interacted more so that they each knew what the other was doing.
Joanie (and other developers here) lacks the time to be "members in good standing" in W3C groups.
Joanie would like to find some other way to coordinate better and share information.
Joanie notes that Joseph is here each week. And he serves on several(?) W3C groups.
ACTION: Joanie will talk to the Board about GNOME joining the W3C.
Joseph reported the following:
- The last ARIA meeting involved a group (of about 4 participants) working through the set of test cases.
- The point was to determine if the test cases were valid, fix them if there were not, and execute the test. ("Execute the test" means loading the test file into a browser, and running an accessibility inspector to see if the predicted result matched the actual a11y tree. The browers include FF, IE, Chrome, and Safari.)
- (detail) Joseph is concentrating testing FF on GNOME.

Juanjo has started a thread on the gnome accessibility mailing list to discuss about how to update the accessibility information from the GNOME web pages.
Juanjo will write an article for the GNOME annual 2011 about the FoG Accessibility Campaign.

Team members:
- Do their Q3s
- Look over Juanjo's draft about how to improve accessibility by promoting a11y to developers and designers.
Joanie
- (with Piñeiro) touch base to see if that evince a11y could be moved forward
- Draft the final Q2 report for the team and get Piñeiro's review.
- Do a full evaluation of the accessibility breakage in Evolution 3.6 and file bugs accordingly.
Juanjo:
- Take a look at the current a11y material in order to make an action plan.
Piñeiro:
- Create some usability-configurability related bugs, using Bryen's mail as a starting point
- (with Joanie) touch base to see if that evince a11y could be moved forward
- List some of "touch-friendly" accessibility features (ie: possibility to define a gesture to control a11y features like zoom), and send it to design team(?)
- Investigate that "Enable by Keyboard" thing.
- Send a mail to bastien to know 1. if he has specific features for the bridge 2. if he plans to work on that.
- Update the AtkObject:children-changed documentation, as this could be also used on ATK implementors.

Accessibility/Minutes/20121108 (last edited 2012-11-15 13:50:09 by JoanmarieDiggs)