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Re: Accessibility: Should we complain about it, or fix it?

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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Nov 10, 2014 11:23AM

Woo!

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Steve Faulkner wrote:

> filing bugs (on browsers)
> http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2014/06/filing-bugs/
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> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>;
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> On 10 November 2014 18:12, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> I additionally feel very strongly that we need to make people
>> know that "fixing it" (whether that means submitting patches,
>> filing well-written bugs, testing, or something else) is welcome
>> and easy.
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>> E.g.
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>> 1. Here is the bug tracker for JAWS / NaturallySpeaking /
>> VoiceOver. Here are instructions on how to write a good bug.
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>> 2. Here is the bug tracker for NVDA / Firefox / Gnome. Here are
>> instructions on how to write a good bug. Here are that
>> community's policies on whether or not they welcome patches from
>> outsiders. If you would like to submit a patch, here are the
>> documents you should read/IRC channels you should frequent/people
>> to whom you should reach out.
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>> 3. Here are the WAI webpages with the standards under
>> construction. Here's how you understand them, and here's how to
>> contribute. Here are the people to whom you should reach out if
>> you would like to be part of a standards conversation.
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>> It's difficult enough to figure out how to "fix it" (and what
>> that even entails) for one product. The process for trying to
>> decipher what's going on for a multitude of products is very,
>> very intimidating for a lot of people. Additionally, many open
>> source communities are scary to newbies -- no, flat-out
>> terrifying. Using IRC if you are not used to it; reaching out in
>> an open source community were the first few responses you
>> might receive may very well be hostile or belittling; figuring
>> out how to file a bug against NaturallySpeaking without paying
>> money to Nuance: these are all difficult tasks, and we forget how
>> difficult they are because the people in this group happen to
>> know how to do most of them.
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>> I think it would be really valuable for a group of people to
>> create a portal for "So, you found a bug in accessibility! How do
>> you help make sure it is fixed?" that helps people out with this
>> process. Ironically, given the spirit of this conversation, I am
>> not actually volunteering to do that.
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>> Deborah Kaplan
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