[BRLTTY] GitHub & accessibility

[Victor Lawrence]

I have not found GitHub to be very accessible.  When I want software,
I stick to the Ubuntu Software Center as that's the easiest way to
install software.

VictorOn 7/5/14, Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:
> Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org> writes:
>
>> I'm wondering how accessible you guys find GitHub.
>> Personnally, I use it rather intensively but as soon as I have to visit
>> the website things become more difficult. There is the hub command-line
>> tool that allows one to do a few things, but i still get the impression
>> that not all the things that can be don through the website can be done
>> in another way, and I don't feel the web site is very accessible.
>>
>> Any comment on this wold be warmly appreciated.
>
> hub is already a good start.  As you noticed, it does not offer an
> interface to every feature on GitHub.  In some cases, it is rather easy
> to implement new hub subcommands, if you read the GitHub API
> documentation, see [1] for a very simple example.
>
> For the rest, I actually managed to generate a bit of interest with
> GitHub staff when I posted this[2] blog article a few months ago.  The
> result of our exchange was, that they are willing to fix (some)
> accessibility problems you might find when using the GitHub website with
> a simple browser like Lynx.  Just write to support at github.com, making
> the fact that you are talking about an accessibility issue somehow
> prominent in the subject/message.  They have fixed at least two issues I
> reported to them over time.
>
> [1] http://blind.guru/github-hub-social.html
> [2] http://blind.guru/contributing-on-github.html
>
> --
> CYa,
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