Re: [Caml-list] Ask questions on the mailing lists too

[Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien.Hinderer@inria.fr>]

Sam Kuper (2022/01/19 22:01 +0000):
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:43:17PM +0100, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> > I don't have any experience with Discourse contributions, but a key to
> > a successful upstream contribution is always good communication (early
> > and often) with the upstream maintainers. In fact, I guess that the
> > first course of action would be to survey what has already been done
> > accessibility-wise for Discourse (see for example
> > https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-audit-and-shepherd-for-making-improvements/66620/6
> > ,
> > https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-with-a-screen-reader/178105/27)
> > and understand the current status.
> >
> > After looking a bit more at this: it looks like the Discourse people
> > are taking accessibility seriously, and it's possible that just nobody
> > pointed out the issues with the mailing-list registration to them.
> > Just doing this (studying how accessibility feedback is given, what
> > information maintainers are asking form, and then sending feedback on
> > the mailing-list registration question) could be a good first step
> > before working on contributing the code ourselves.
>
> Unfortunately, participating in the Discourse threads above requires
> registration on meta.discourse.org .
>
> Catch-22.

It happens so often that the thing you are supposed to use to report
accessibility issues is itself not accessible. Sad thing.

Sébastien.

> Sam
>