[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [libreoffice-accessibility] keyboard accessibility of new template manager - fdo#61390

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hello Markus, Stuart,

And to add to the excellent point Markus made, I'm already aware of that
problem (as well of some others) and wanted to start fixing it. Of
course any helping coding hand is more than welcomed ;)

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Cedric

On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 10:13 +0100, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> Hey Stuart,
> 
> the best way to make sure that development pays attention to
> accessibility is by staying active when developers ask for design of
> new dialogs and early testing of the implementation. Early feedback
> that the accessibility part is suboptimal makes it easier for us to
> fix it before we ship it.
> 
> So as you picked the new template manager as an example. It is a GSoC
> project from last summer and has been discussed on this list beginning
> in summer last year and I think early testing of the feature in master
> began around october or november. Testing such a feature at that point
> and making sure that accessibility roles are correctly implemented
> makes sure that the developer implementing it still has enough time to
> fix it. Now it is nearly 6 months later and the developers who were
> working on it are already working on other tasks and it might take
> some time until they are able to pick it up again.
> 
> That said it is still good to report it in bugzilla and making us
> aware of our suboptimal accessibility support in new features.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your effort rising awareness of these problems. If
> you think it is a general problem that we are not paying enough
> attention on accessibility support in new dialogs it would be nice if
> you could give us some examples so that we can discuss how we can
> improve our workflow in the future.
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
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