Re: Dasher

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Let's please not judge the value of Dasher, or any a11y package by
number of users. This is a seriously slippery slope. By this reckoning
a11y may as well go back into the closet. By definition, a11y is about
edge cases, minimal user numbers, etc., etc. Else there would be no need
for exception casing, because all applications would be tailored at
screen readers, or at nonmouse input.

A11y needs to be in the default package mix because it meets policy
objectives, not because it is used by a majority of users. At the moment
that includes Orca, Gok, and Dasher plus their dependencies.

Janina

Samuel Thibault writes:
> Steve Lee, le Wed 19 Mar 2008 06:57:04 +0000, a écrit :
> > On 19/03/2008, Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com> wrote:
> > > Is Dasher a useful tool that is still needed as part of a distro's
> > >  default install?
> > 
> > Is there any way we can get an idea of numbers of users?
> 
> In Debian's popcon.debian.org, among 64688 votes, dasher was
> voted 363 times.
> 
> Samuel
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