Hi Olaf!
I appreciate that kttsd can have many useful applications. I differ
with your statement below, however:
But screen readers do not help partially sighted users, users with learning
difficulties, or people who simply love to have system notifications or IRC
messages spoken.
Hi All!
I appreciate that kttsd can have many useful applications. I differ
with your statement below, however:
But screen readers do not help partially sighted users, users with learning
difficulties, or people who simply love to have system notifications or IRC
messages spoken.
I,
Hi Olaf,
Just a quick comment...
...
But screen readers do not help partially sighted users, users with learning
difficulties, or people who simply love to have system notifications or IRC
messages spoken. kttsd is being used successfully by all these user groups.
Actually, users with
quote who=Jeff Waugh
The Boston Summit [1] is coming up in early October, and I thought it
might be a good chance to bring together everyone working on GNOME
accessibility, to talk through common goals, differing solutions, and how
to get all of us on the same page and working to a master
[ Bill Haneman ]
Actually in the Windows world all of those are frequent use cases for
screen readers. In conjunction with magnification or onscreen
highlighting, screen readers can be especially useful for partially
sighted users and users with reading/cognitive difficulties.
Yes, I am
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 20:44, Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
[ Bill Haneman ]
Actually in the Windows world all of those are frequent use cases for
screen readers. In conjunction with magnification or onscreen
highlighting, screen readers can be especially useful for partially
sighted users and
[ Bill Haneman ]
That strikes me as a surprising statement. Of course it depends on what
you mean by partially sighted.
The people I am familiar with for example have light allergy. Large bright
areas on the screen hurts their eyes (e.g. selected text in the GNOME dark
background colour
I'm the developer of SOK, which is now being rebranded to onBoard.
I have come across the issues that Bill has mentioned and I think he
is right that XEvie is the only proper solution.
That said it is possible to work around the grabbing issues simply by
grabbing the pointer for a while after
