2024-04-30 - Accessibility WG Meeting Recap

Project Discussion
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Hi everyone!

On Tuesday we had our monthly meeting. This month we switched over to using BigBlueButton and have the meeting recorded. Link is here!

Chair:

  • Justin (JWF)

Attendees:

  • Emma Kidney, she/her, ekidney

  • Vera Cholasta

  • Bodhan

  • Lukas Tyruchtr

  • sumantrom

  • Jona Azizaj, she/her, jonatoni

  • Joseph Gayoso

  • obazeeconsole

Announcements & updates

  • Fedora Linux 40 was released on Tuesday! :fireworks:

  • CFP for Fedora Week of Diversity is open. Everyone is welcome to apply by May 11. CFP link.

  • Elections now open for F40 cycle! Nominations open until 8th May.

  • May 16th - Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Wikipedia link.

Follow-ups from last meeting

Agenda topics & notes

  • Accessibility complaints on social media. How to flow that feedback to the right party?

    • Marketing team can be supportive on social media but needs to be followed up by actually fixing the issues. Need a two way communication to solve these things.

    • Empower the users to bring the issue to the right people. Should we use bugzilla more? Or is there a better way for us to track that feedback? What way are other distros doing it

    • Bugzilla, if not an Issue tracking system. Vera still looking into this, not sure what would suit upstream.

    • Bohdan agrees with having it in one place, all bugs primarily go to bugzilla. There are several whitebaords on there at the moment. We need to agree to have an accessibility whiteboard there so we can create a filter for the accessibility related bugs.

    • Page on how to file a bug in bugzilla: How to file a bug :: Fedora Docs. Could we build on this to specify for a11y issues?

    • Should the Marketing team file a bug on behalf of the user? How accessibile is bugzilla for people?

    • Flags on bugzilla depends on the user who is logged in and what they have permissions for.

    • Bugsilla FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

    • Lukas mentions that there is nothing on bugzilla in regards to accessibility issues. If it not used then there is no use forcing people to learn how to use it now as the UI is complicated.

    • We still need to have a please to collect all the bugs shared to us so we can have an overview of what issues there are and who is working on them.

    • Should we engage the workstation WG? There is collab with gnome there. We need to outline what that would look like. They face similar issues; getting someone to work on the issues.

    • Two paths forward:

      1. Reach out to workstation wg and see what they would suggest with feedback we are getting in terms of a11y issues. Lean on them as an initial partner. Then if that works we could reach out to KDE and do similar.

      2. If workstation wg dont have the capacity, it could be a good niche for this wg. We could point users to our issue tracker and then we chase the issue with the relevant place.

    • See what the workstation wg says first and then make a plan.

Action items

  • Justin to reach out to workstation WG.

  • Emma to post meeting recap.

Next meeting

May 28th, 4pm UTC :slight_smile: See you then.

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