accessibility docs

[Matthew East]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I tried pinging Matthew directly with this question last week, but
> haven't heard back...here it is again..maybe someone knows the answer?

Sorry, I saw your email but have been a bit pressed recently.

> I'm just taking a quick look through the accessibility docs and there's
> a patch from Matthew as follows:
>
> mattheweast.patch
> === removed file 'gnome2-accessibility-guide/C/ats.xml'
> --- gnome2-accessibility-guide/C/ats.xml 2006-08-11 14:49:32 +0000
>
> It both adds and removes a bunch of references to Solaris. I was hoping
> to clean up (i.e. remove) these references and test the functionality
> where possible within Ubuntu (I don't have a Braille display, so I can't
> fix it all) but I wanted to see if there was anything I should know
> before doing this cleanup?

As you can see, that work was done a couple of years ago, I'm fairly
sure that the patch was integrated into the main document in the
upstream version of the Accessibility Guide.

Most work that gets done on the Accessibility Guide is done upstream.
The key thing for you to decide is whether you want to work on
improving it generally (in which case your patches should be done
against the latest upstream version [1]) or to make specific
Ubuntu-related changes. The latter is rather more difficult, because
the changes will have to keep updating as the upstream version of the
document is improved. Having said that it's not impossible: I will
help out whichever you choose (although I may take a little bit of
time to respond sometimes!). The first step will be to set up an
ubuntu-jaunty branch for the gnome-user-docs (which we have also done
in past releases, as you can see here -
https://code.launchpad.net/gnome-user-docs).

Let me know what you had in mind, and we'll take things from there.

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/gnome-user-docs/trunk

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Matthew East
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