Public bug reported:
Following on from the issue of bug #986289 to more general issue about
the design of the unity greeter and how a person, in particular a newer
user, with only keyboard-like access can make proper use of the
computer.
There is an underlying issue of poor "discoverability" here and it
fails, in my view, to be acceptable for a disabled user:
(1) Why does the tab key not cycle to the other menus? Where exactly
will a user, faced with the log-in screen, find out that the 'F10' key
opens the shutdown menu?
(2) The tab key only cycles between the log-in desktop (e.g. Gnome,
Unity, etc, and not the user list) and the entry window for the current
account's password.
The up & down arrow keys cycle the user accounts (which is no that
obvious but I found out by trying most keys until something happened),
but they do not cycle the desktop choice. For that you need to make
further use the tab key!
Why the lack of consistency?
(3) Having found that 'F10' will open the shutdown drop-down menu, what
keys allow access to the accessibility drop-down menu on the top bar?
(4) Same for the drop-down selector for keyboard/language?
(5) How is a user expected to get help on this? The de-facto standard
'F1' brings up nothing, and there is no textual indication on the
display to show, for example, that using 'F10' brings up the shutdown
menu.
** Affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071728
Title:
lightdm fails keyboard accessability design
Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Following on from the issue of bug #986289 to more general issue about
the design of the unity greeter and how a person, in particular a
newer user, with only keyboard-like access can make proper use of the
computer.
There is an underlying issue of poor "discoverability" here and it
fails, in my view, to be acceptable for a disabled user:
(1) Why does the tab key not cycle to the other menus? Where exactly
will a user, faced with the log-in screen, find out that the 'F10' key
opens the shutdown menu?
(2) The tab key only cycles between the log-in desktop (e.g. Gnome,
Unity, etc, and not the user list) and the entry window for the
current account's password.
The up & down arrow keys cycle the user accounts (which is no that
obvious but I found out by trying most keys until something happened),
but they do not cycle the desktop choice. For that you need to make
further use the tab key!
Why the lack of consistency?
(3) Having found that 'F10' will open the shutdown drop-down menu,
what keys allow access to the accessibility drop-down menu on the top
bar?
(4) Same for the drop-down selector for keyboard/language?
(5) How is a user expected to get help on this? The de-facto standard
'F1' brings up nothing, and there is no textual indication on the
display to show, for example, that using 'F10' brings up the shutdown
menu.
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