Calum is correct - the use of the notification area as an interactive dialog is currently a very bad thing for accessibility. The notification balloons are not keyboard traversable and can only be accessed via the mouse. As such, any user who does not use the mouse (e.g., a blind user) will not have access to these dialogs.
There should be some other mechanism (e.g., a menu item in the System->Administration menu) to open the same dialog that would be opened if you clicked on the notification dialog. Will Calum Benson wrote: > > On 28 Aug 2009, at 00:53, Frank Ludolph wrote: > >> Jack, >> >> I have made some revisions to the GUI at >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Driver_Update/dduGUIspec/ >> >> The major revision addresses the "silently installed" issue raised by >> Dave and others. In a nutshell the silent, automatic installation is >> still performed, but a notification is posted in all cases where there >> are missing device drivers. If the user opens the GUI panel all >> devices missing drivers are listed and those devices that are having >> drivers automatically installed will display "installing..." in the >> Driver column until the installation of each driver completes. > > I'm coming very late to this, but as I understand it, notification > balloons with "click this message to do X" functionality are currently > not accessible, so with this design, screenreader users may not be made > aware that they have missing drivers. (They can presumably check > manually by running the DDU tool themeselves, but that doesn't really > constitute the 'equivalent access' that we aim to provide wherever > practical.) > > Cc'ing Willie Walker for any more thoughts... > > Cheeri, > Calum. >
