On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:54, Calum Benson wrote: > On 10 Feb 2006, at 12:31, Bill Haneman wrote: > > > Anyhow, the less stuff we make "special" to accessibility, the better. > > If something really requires a timeout, then the timeout should be > > configurable. In many cases, the better solution is not to use a > > timeout at all. > > Just to play devil's advocate, does something as long as 2 minutes (I > forget if that's how long it is in GNOME, but it is in OS X) really > count as a "timeout" in the conventional sense? > Cheeri, > Calum.
Hi Calum: I accept your logic from a commonsense approach; my hunch is that any timeout longer than 1 minute is probably not a major accessibility problem (though I may be missing some important user scenario here). HOWEVER, the legal requirements for accessibility, at least in the US, don't make that distinction, and thus any distro that wanted to meet accessibility regulations would probably be obliged to patch the feature out. regards Bill _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
