Bill Haneman wrote: > Hi Petra: > > In the most recent versions of Gnome, assistive technology support is on > by default. The access keys idea is a reasonable one, and I think it > would greatly improve the Ubuntu accessibility experience for screen > reader and onscreen keyboard users. Agreed. For the on-screen keyboard we can even do this now because our new on-screen keyboard does not need AT-SPI to run. Orca will also run without AT-SPI but only with a very limited set of applications (like itself). Having a way to dynamically load AT-SPI would be great! > We have something similar in the > gdm login screen (though it requires configuring when the system is > first set up), which allows certain "gestures" to start assistive > technologies. > I clearly need to look more closely at this. It's a very cool feature. > I'd be interested to know what your primary complaints with gnopernicus > magnification are. It is possible to configure a system for fullscreen > magnification using gnopernicus, and although the results aren't as > "snappy" for mouse use as some commercial Windows magnifiers, it is > basically functional and follows both mouse and keyboard focus (at least > when properly configured). We are also working on a compiz-based magnifier which would improve performance, but unfortunately work is slow on this.
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