Meeting Summary

• Meeting started by Piñeiro at 16:05 CET.
• Meeting ended at 17:03 CET.
• Participants (Lines Said):
  • Piñeiro - API (176)
  • Joanie - joanie (56)
  • Magdalen - magpie_desktop (47)
  • Joseph - clown (37)
  • Juanjo - jjmarin (16)
  • Mike - mgorse (3)

• Log

GSoC Update

• This week was very unproductive and the focusCaretTracker and magnification edits did not make 3.9.90
• ACTION: Magdalen will make sure the changes are in time for 3.9.91
• The delay was due to a number of factors:
  1. The information Jasper gave her about how to run gnome-shell in jhbuild was not correct and this messed up the symlinks to libaries that are needed. Magdalen is not sure why that happened but she suspects it was because Jasper having too many conversations at once.

  2. The discussion about whether to make the tracker a singleton or not went on for too long.
     Magdalen feels she should be involved in decisions about work that she has to implement especially when the decisions make things more difficult to implement.

  3. Magdalen broke her computer before guadec and when she finally got it working that was a terrible connection.
• Magdalen apologises for the delay and has nothing further to add

• LINK: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNine

• LINK: https://wiki.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning

• LINK: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNine/Features

• ACTION: Piñeiro will confirm if in order to have Magdalen's work in 3.9.91, a feature freeze request is needed.
• ACTION: If needed, as soon as Magdalen's work is ready, Piñeiro will make that request.

Test Evolution Redux

• Juanjo mentioned to Joanie last week that Alberto Ruiz wanted to know if the Evolution accessibility bugs are still present.
• Joanie is sure that they are, but is happy to update the (5+ year old) bugs with new test cases.
• ACTION: Joanie will do some testing and update the Evolution a11y bugs.

W3C Updates

• There is an effort to define a new aria-describedat attribute.
• Originally, the value would be an url that pointed to a off-page description.

• It is similar to longdesc, but could be used for any element (longdesc is for <img> element only).

• It is also contrasted with the existing aria-describedby which takes an idref to an element on the current page.
• However, this is still very preliminary.

• Some of the ideas are documented here: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/aria-unofficial/raw-file/tip/describedat.html

Marketing

• Juanjo has been working on updating some gnome a11y entries in wikipedia:

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Screen_Reader

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnopernicus

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_%28assistive_technology%29

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers.

• This is a work in progress, more changes soon

Miscellaneous Time

• LINK: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/gnopernicus/

• gnopernicus is dead
• ACTION: long live gnopernicus!

Action Items

• Joanie:
  • Do some testing and update the Evolution a11y bugs.
• Piñeiro:
  • Confirm if in order to have Magdalen's work in 3.9.91, a feature freeze request is needed.
  • If needed, as soon as Magdalen's work is ready, Piñeiro will make that request.

Ongoing / Rolled-Over

• Joanie:
  • Email Mark Sadecki about our team meetings and invite him to join us to provide W3C updates.
• Juanjo:
  • Take a look at the current a11y material in order to make an action plan.
• Piñeiro:
  • Ping mousetweaks maintainers in relation with their plans towards Wayland.
  • Send a email to accessibility-dev, just in case the Wayland Accessibility section needs to be filled.
  • Compose a "what accessibility needs from Wayland, how to use it" email, ask for review, send to the Wayland Developer's list.
  • Ping GNOME designers, so hopefully some default keybinding will be available for 3.8.
  • Create some usability-configurability related bugs, using Bryen's mail as a starting point.