Re: Bug#1007106: reportbug: please make the meaning of the a11y tag clearer

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Simon McVittie wrote:
> For instance, the bug that prompted me to open this one is a deadlock (or
> something) in interacting with Pipewire's PulseAudio-compatible server,
> which makes the game Minetest (among others) take a long time to start
> and have no sound. That certainly makes it hard to access normal
> functionality of minetest, but it doesn't seem like a bug that needs
> particular attention from accessibility experts...

Oops, indeed!

> Can anyone suggest a wording that makes the intention of the tag clearer,
> without "othering" the people who particularly need bugs with this tag to
> be fixed? I've cc'd debian-accessibility in the hope that someone on that
> list has a better idea.

Thanks for the notice!

> 1 a11y      This bug is relevant to the accessibility of the package.

Perhaps simply adding

1 a11y      This bug is relevant to the accessibility of the package for disabled users.

?

Or rephrasing to make it shorter:

1 a11y      This bug affects disabled users.

?

Samuel