Re: Getting Tech info out to people

[Bryen <suserocks bryen com>]

Awesome.  Can we add these links to the /topic?  I don't have /topic
rights.

Also, let's give the correct link to where to register for this mailing
list in there as well.


On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:04 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> There's actually three documents:
> 
> 1) For users: http://snoringbeagle.net/gag.html
> 2) For developers: http://snoringbeagle.net/gadg.html
> 3) For OS distributions: http://snoringbeagle.net/dtg.html
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Will
> 
> Bryen wrote:
> > Sorry, I hadn't realized that the document focused on the technical
> > aspects.  From what I had read before, I had the impression it was more
> > of a "how to use a11y functions" for users.  Perhaps I was wrong and
> > I'll have to re-review the document.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 12:06 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> >> Hi Bryen:
> >>
> >> There is a GOPA task underway that Vincent Alexander is working on:
> >>
> >> http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/documentation/
> >>
> >> The current drafts are here:
> >>
> >> http://snoringbeagle.net/
> >>
> >> And we have a bug open to set up something to automatically push the docs:
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552532
> >>
> >> When all this is in place, I want to update 
> >> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility to make sure it and its subpages 
> >> point to the right spot.
> >>
> >> In fact, I plan on dedicating my entire Monday this coming Monday to 
> >> revisit live.gnome.org/Accessibility and live.gnome.org/GAP to see what 
> >> can be done about reconciling everything under 
> >> live.gnome.org/Accessibility and getting things in place.  If you'd like 
> >> to help, we could attempt to do it via IRC.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Will
> >>
> >> Bryen wrote:
> >>> We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
> >>> is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
> >>> channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
> >>> get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
> >>> during non-meeting times.
> >>>
> >>> I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
> >>> this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.
> >>>
> >>> As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
> >>> last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
> >>> GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
> >>> we couldn't connect the right people to him.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
> >>> put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
> >>> (We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)
> >>>
> >>> We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
> >>> in their hearts.
> >>>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list
> >> gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
> 
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Bryen Yunashko
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