Hi QA, Per our discussion at the QA Meeting on Monday[1], I talked to the ESC about our concerns with keyboard a11y issues in new/converted UIs.
ESC was helpful in suggesting several steps to remedy these shorfalls including * Turning bugs into EasyHacks that can be more easily addressed * Providing documentation on a11y testing/dev tools Stuart/Florian R. - Thank you for bringing these problems up at the QA Meeting. A11y is really important for us as a project, and it's great to have people ensuring that we're not regressing as we improve LibreOffice's UI. I'd like you two to take the lead on addressing these bugs and providing feedback in a format that's actionable by the devs. Regarding testing, perhaps there are specific things that we could do with MozTrap to identify a11y-relevant changes early-on. Sophie - thoughts? :-) Stuart -- you mentioned several key issues that affect multiple teams in the project: * "capricious assignments made in widget UI...impact the Documentation effort" * "Special key usage—KEY_F6, KEY_F10 with modifiers and the movements they control should be consistent across all UI layouts." * "Graphical placement of Widget buttons and dialogs must also have logical sequencing..." As these issues affect multiple teams including Design, Documentation, QA, Development, etc.., perhaps we need to improve communication with the a11y team to be able to better-address these issues. I'm not sure how other projects address these concerns (maybe we could ask projects like Gnome?), but I'd like to have a11y be considered early-on in the development process so that once a Design is approved and implemented and arrives in QA for testing, any general a11y concerns have already been noted. Thanks, --R [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Meetings/2013/December_02#PENDING_ITEM:_Start_Center_and_Sidebar_Concerns _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: [email protected] Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
