Re: On the Interaction with the design team

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hi Joanie,

Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
> 
> I was planning on staying out of this one, conflict-avoidant creature
> that I tend to be. But.... I'm with Dave:
> 
> > To sum it all up, I
> > believe the current dynamic of the design team is doing damage to GNOME
> > as a community.
> 
> I would love to find ways for the design team and the accessibility team
> to work better together. Surely we must have some common ground, and
> there has to be some happy medium between ATs that are visually pleasing
> and look like they belong within GNOME 3 and yet still address the needs
> of users with disabilities. The designers bring the former to the table,
> I think our team brings the latter.

I don't think any of our design crew would disagree with that.

> But past interactions have (in my
> personal experience) been negative. 

Can you elaborate?

> Part of me believes that I should just suck it up and get thicker skin.
> But most of me concludes that contributing to GNOME is something I
> (supposedly) do "for fun." So seeing some way to improve this situation
> would be a great step forward I think.
> 
> FWIW.
> --joanie

Allan
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