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petsoi@discuss.tchncs.deM to Gnome@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 9 days ago

GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

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GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days

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petsoi@discuss.tchncs.deM to Gnome@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 9 days ago
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There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth collaborating with, especially with the recent community growth and engagement over the past few years. Georges Stavracas and Jeff Fortin Tam are some of the best maintainers I have ever worked with. I cannot express how thankful I am of Jeff’s underappreciated superhuman capabilities to voluntarily coordinate huge initiatives and issue trackers. One of Jeff’s many initiatives is gnome-calendar#1036: the accessibility initiative, which is a big and detailed list of issues related to accessibility. In my opinion, GNOME Calendar’s biggest problem was the lack of accessibility support, which made the app completely unusable for people exclusively using a keyboard, or people relying on assistive technologies. This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence (12 years at a minimum), the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar.
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