Re: add accessibility section to "List of sections" pages?
Hello,
Rich Morin, le lun. 24 févr. 2020 07:51:32 -0800, a ecrit:
> I recently wrote the following note to debian-www@lists.debian.org:
>
> > The Debian "List of sections" pages (eg, https://packages.debian.org/stable) have no section for accessibility. Please consider adding one, listing such packages as BRLTTY, Emacspeak, and Orca. If it helps, I'd be happy to help in assembling a starting point for the package list.
>
> In response, I received the following suggestions from Paul Wise:
>
> > I believe that this list is based on the list of sections defined in
> > the Debian archive:
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/blob/master/setup/core-init.d/020_sections
>
> This seems quite plausible, looking at the file.
>
> > Please discuss that with the accessibility team:
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility-devel
>
> I assume that this list is the right place to start doing that.
Yes.
> > I think the needed action here is to report some bugs:
> >
> > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
> >
> > One against ftp.debian.org asking to create the section.
> >
> > One against ftp.debian.org asking to override the section for the
> > relevant packages.
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/ftp.debian.org
> >
> > One against each of the relevant packages asking to update the section.
> >
> > One against www.debian.org (usertagged for packages.debian.org) asking
> > to add the accessibility section description.
>
> Before I start filing bug reports, I'd like to find out if folks here are in favor of this idea and perhaps enlist some assistance in making it happen. Hence this note...
Actually, we already had this idea in the past :)
See the "Accessibility archive section?" section of
https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility-devel
(probably there are more to put there nowadays)
I don't remember any reason for not proceeding with it (except lack of
time)
Samuel
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