[BRLTTY] GitHub & accessibility

[J. R. Westmoreland]

I use GitHub all the time. What have you found that isn’t accessible?
I use it for complete software development work.

Best,
J. R.


On Jul 9, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Victor Lawrence <victorelawrence at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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