Invitation to the FOSCo brainstorm meeting 2016-07-18 13:00 UTC
by Christoph Wickert
Hi everybody,
for quite some time now, Fedora has been discussing the idea of FOSCo,
the Fedora Outreach Steering Committee, a body to coordinate all our
outreach efforts. Now it's time to make it happen!
On behalf of FAmSCo and the Fedora Council, I'd like to invite all of
you to an all-hands
FOSCo brainstorm meeting on
Monday, August 18th at 13:00 UTC
in #fedora-council on freenode
So far, the following participants have confirmed attendance:
* Ambassadors: cwickert, giannisk, gnokii, mailga, potty, tuanta
* Council: mattdm
* Design team: gnokii
* Marketing: jflory7
* CommOps: jflory7
* Websites: mailga
* Docs: zoglesby
* g11n: noriko
The fact that we already have a good team of volunteers should not
stop you from attending, in fact, we would like to hear more voices
from all stakeholders. The more, the better!
To get an idea what FAmSCo has been working on so far, please have a look at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSCo and
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSCo_status
None of this is set in stone yet, and we feel we need your input
before we go any further. We are looking forward to your input and to
meet you next Monday!
Best regards,
Christoph
7 years, 9 months
Site bug: Use alt attribute *only* for accessibility
by Joanmarie Diggs
Hi.
============================= TL;DR =============================
Please do what the subject says; otherwise screen readers on all
platforms will spew out things you don't want them to. Thanks! :)
=================================================================
On (at least) start.fedoraproject.org, you have the following:
<a href="https://www.redhat.com/">A Red Hat-Sponsored Community
Project <img
src="/static/images/sponsors/redhat-community.png"
alt="Project-Id-Version: Fedora Websites
Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS
POT-Creation-Date: 2012-10-16 16:59+0200
PO-Revision-Date: 2012-10-17 19:17+0000
Last-Translator: Kévin Raymond <shaiton(a)fedoraproject.org>
Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL(a)li.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Generated-By: Babel 0.9.6
Language: en
Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);
"></a>
This is a recentish change.
If you look at this W3C spec [1], you'll note that failing the use of an
aria-label or aria-labelledby attribute, the accessible name of the
'img' element should be the content of the attribute. And the Accessible
Name is what a screen reader SHOULD present (speak and display in
braille) to users.
Furthermore, if you look in that same spec for the 'a' element [2],
you'll notice that the name should come from the element subtree. This
means the accessible name of the link, that all screenreaders are
expected to speak and display in braille when that link gets focus or is
otherwise read, is:
"A Red Hat-Sponsored Community Project Project-Id-Version: Fedora
Websites Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS POT-Creation-Date:
2012-10-16 16:59+0200 PO-Revision-Date: 2012-10-17 19:17+0000
Last-Translator: Kévin Raymond <shaiton(a)fedoraproject.org>
Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL(a)li.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Generated-By: Babel 0.9.6 Language: en Plural-Forms: nplurals=2;
plural=(n != 1);]"
I've attached two screen shots of Accerciser illustrating that the above
really is the accessible name of the link for both Gecko (using Firefox,
but SeaMonkey shows it too) and WebKitGtk (using Epiphany). That name is
what Orca speaks when the user Tabs to that link. (That's how I
discovered this issue.)
I have also attached a screenshot taken using Apple's VoiceOver
screenreader (with the spoken output display enabled) in OS X using
Safari. What is displayed is what VoiceOver speaks when you Tab to that
link. Mind you, it says more than what is displayed; the "..." at the
end merely indicates what is to be spoken exceeds the space allocated by
the container.
From the aforementioned spec references, you'll note that one way to
work around this is through the use of ARIA attributes. HOWEVER, that
strikes me as a hack, not to mention additional work, that wouldn't be
necessary if you only used the alt attribute for accessibility. If the
value really needs to be in the element, please put it in some other
data attribute. That would solve the problem without ARIA.
All of this said, my guess is some authoring tool is responsible for
this. In which case, it might be worth filing a bug against that
authoring tool. Regardless, if you could fix this img's alt value and,
if applicable, search the rest of the Fedora Project content for this
issue and fix any other instances, that would be awesome.
Please let me know if you have any questions. And thanks for your time
and attention to this issue!
--joanie
Orca maintainer, ARIA spec editor, Fedora user -- and recommender
[1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html#img-element
[2] https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/html-aam/html-aam.html#a-element
7 years, 9 months
Random list of projects on getfedora.org
by Patrick Uiterwijk
Hi,
I wonder what is with the seemingly random list of open source projects on https://getfedora.org/en/sponsors.
That list is by no meaning complete, and the list seems entirely random (e.g.: TurboGears is on there while Flask isn't),
and why arent't Pagure or Ipsilon on it?
I don't think there's any use of that list: there's no way that is ever going to be complete or being kept up to date.
Could we please just remove the list entirely?
Thanks,
Patrick
7 years, 9 months
Self Introduction
by abhishek goswami
I am ABHISHEK GOSWAMI , a 4th year computer science student.
I have good experience in python and web technologies such as
Django,Flask, Angular.js,html5 ,css3 etc and Version Control
System(GIT).
I have a 2 year experience in web development and have been doing front
end as well as backend part.
I have done many web projects at my level and have a good understanding
of web development, good procedures for development.
I will like to contribute to fedora.
Skills: Python, Django, Flask,Html5,css3 ,Ionic, C,C++, GIT
OS:Linux(fedora, ubuntu)
Thanks
Abhishek Goswami
7 years, 10 months
[Fedora Infrastructure] #5207: Explore uses for donated CDN
by fedora-badges
#5207: Explore uses for donated CDN
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Reporter: kevin | Owner: webmaster
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: HANDWAVY-FUTURE
Component: Web Content | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Sensitive: 0 |
--------------------------+-----------------------------
We have been approached by a CDN (content delivery network) provider that
wishes to donate their services to us. :)
We need to explore how best we could use such a network or adapt to using
such a network.
Static websites content seems like it might be easy to test out.
mirrors seems like it would be more complex and heavy, but perhaps we can
find a way to use it for heavily accessed content.
Ideas and suggestions welcome.
--
Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5207>
Fedora Infrastructure <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure>
Fedora Infrastructure Project for Bugs, feature requests and access to our source code.
7 years, 10 months
