Re: Straw man agenda

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Brian:

> + I think a *lot* of a11y bugs are really the same sort of problems
>    that you see over and over again.  Programs that do not have
>    accessible labels for widgets, for example.  Perhaps it would be
>    useful to pick a few bugs that are examples of the common a11y bugs
>    that exist and do an exercise where we demonstrate the bug (how to
>    see that the bug exists), and then actually fix the bug.  Probably
>    lots of these kinds of bugs are simple 1-line fixes, and if we showed
>    people that it is actually easy to identify and fix these sorts of
>    bugs (if you know how), then perhaps we would find more community
>    involvement in getting these sorts of issues addressed.

This would be great.  I'll bet the #1 example would be to bring up glade
and show people how to set the label-for and labelled-by properties of a
component.  #2 could be showing how to support keyboard traversal stuff.

I'll see where this could be worked in.  Even if the audience may be
more of the choir, the choir usually ends up being the one doing the
repairs.

> I think it would be more useful to have two tracks instead of just one.

Oooh...this might be too much.  Maybe for GUADEC, though, as Bill
suggested.

Thanks!

Will