On 03/29/2013 08:15 AM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
Robert,
Thank you for adding my proposal to the Board's agenda regarding accessibility. Having read the minutes, I think I need to clarify some things.
First of all, my proposal isn't about the creation of an a11y team, and I do agree with you that things should not be where the buck gets passed. However, I think it is a misnomer to assume that all things a11y-related have to be dealt with by an a11y team.
I don't think we suggested the creation of an a11y team, only pointed out that we do not have one.
My proposal is to create a new severity level that addresses a11y as a severity, rather than creating a new category. Too often, reporting a bug as normal, major, or critical oftentimes does not fit into the severity impact of an accessibility bug.
Ooops misunderstanding. Anyway, the mail to -factory has been sent and a discussion has been started. Personally I think having an a11y severity might be confusing unless it would be defined to be equivalent to one of the existing levels. For better or worse people have been trained that we have the existing levels and thus would inevitably ask is a11y severity more or less than critical, or major, or ....
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I recognize that simply marking the severity level as Accessibility doesn't guarantee that the bug gets fixed. That's still up to the team to decide, and I am not asking the Board to get into some kind of enforcement mode to try to force teams to address a11y bugs. I'm merely asking that we establish an easier way for users to report a11y bugs more comfortably as well as an easier way for teams to be aware of the existence of a11y bugs.
Well, it is technical in a sense that the bugs should be addressed. All board members o the call were in agreement that this is a technical issue. Additionally, just providing window dressing does not really help. Meaning, if we add an a11y severity and than treat it as severity 0.5 we all know that those bugs will not get fixed. In that case why bother? Just to improve the filing experience and pretend we care? I am personally not in favor of a window dressing approach. IMHO we either make a commitment that these bugs are important and reflect the importance in bugzilla, or we decide they are not important and people that need a11y are on their own. I'd prefer a commitment by the development community that these bugs are "somewhat special" and deserve a high priority.
I hardly think that's a technical matter the board would be advocating here. Only simply a one-addtional item in the severity list.
Well, "only simply one additional item in the severity list" could possibly be achieved by filing a bug report against bugzilla. But is that what you really are after, a "we pretend it matters" entry? Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org