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“One of these mornings you’re gonna rise up singing…”<\/em><\/p>\n

UX-Hackfest + GUADEC<\/strong><\/p>\n

This\u00a0 year I was present at the UX-Hackfest which was held at Igalia’s headquarters in Coru\u00f1a. While I’m not really very involved with\u00a0 the UX team, having this event in the same place I work every day gave me the opportunity to see first-hand how the designers work, take an in-depth look at the features they are\u00a0 working on, and be the voice of the Accessibility Team if required. For me it was a very good experience. And in the end I didn’t need to be that voice, as several of the designs were already taking accessibility needs into account.<\/p>\n

In other stay-at-home news, I also attended GUADEC which took place here in Coru\u00f1a, the city I have been living in most of my life, and at the same Faculty where I studied computer science several years ago. It was great having GUADEC so close to home this year, no flights and so on.<\/p>\n

As everyone has already mentioned in their posts, this year GUADEC was really successful, from the point of view of the organization\u00a0(kudos to all the people involved) as well as the content and community. Although it is true that there were a lot of challenges, we had a lot of energized people working hard to make the project a success.<\/p>\n

From my side this GUADEC was really busy. After a release-team meeting, we gave a\u00a0“five minute” presentation at the AGM that, unlike most of the other presentations, started a little debate. Some people feel that the challenges faced in producing GNOME require someone pushing the community in the\u00a0short-medium-long term, and some think that the release team is that “someone”. Whether or not this is the case, and how to do that pushing if it is, is something that we are still debating.<\/p>\n

I also gave a presentation at the AGM as a representative of the Accessibility Team, summarizing\u00a0the work done and the features and fixes which will be included in 3.6. I gave a longer and more detailed talk about the same (slides here<\/a>). As probably you already know, for GNOME 3.6 the most important accessibility feature included is “Accessibility always on”. Instead of needing to activate the accessibility support, log out and log in again, now the support is always there.<\/p>\n

Becoming a WebKitter too: Thanks to F123&Mais Diferen\u00e7as<\/strong><\/p>\n

After GUADEC, Joanmarie and I began working on the accessibility\u00a0support of WebKitGTK\/Epiphany, specifically the support with Orca,\u00a0resuming the development already done by Mario<\/a>.\u00a0 This work will be included in the next GNOME stable release, so Epiphany 3.6\u00a0 will have a better accessibility support. But not only Epiphany will benefit: Because most\u00a0of the work was done in WebKitGTK, all applications based on WebKitGTK will have improved accessibility support. This includes Geary, Evolution, and Yelp.<\/p>\n

I would like to thank F123&Mais Diferen\u00e7as<\/a> for supporting this development and continuing to help improve the accessibility support on the GNOME platform.<\/p>\n

GNOME 3.6 is coming<\/strong><\/p>\n

There have already been a number of posts (not to mention the in-progress release notes) describing what’s new for GNOME 3.6. In fact, some even talk about accessibility support (like this one<\/a> from Matthias). So I won’t repeat what they have said. The tl;dr version is this:<\/p>\n