Willie Walker wrote: > OK - I'll answer my own question - this approach doesn't seem to do what > we want. In testing and testing with this, the problem is that some > assistive technologies depend upon the existence and value of the key > itself: if it's not enabled, they let the user know and then enable it. > I embarassingly know this now because that's what Orca does, and I'm > pretty sure it's what Gnopernicus does. >
GOK does it too :-P David > So.... > > It seems as though the right thing to do is enable accessibility in the > default schema for development releases. Anyone have a clue for how to > do this? > > Will > > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 11:12 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> This has festered for a little bit without further comment, so I'd like >> to poke it one more time to try to get this in for the GNOME 2.17.2 >> tarballs. Please speak up if you disagree and/or don't like the >> proposed patch (and you have a constructive alternative solution ;-)): >> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362457 >> >> Thanks! >> >> Will >> >> On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 19:18 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: >> >>> Hi All: >>> >>> As part of the GNOME Boston 2006 Accessibility Summit, and as part of >>> the larger GNOME testing discussions, we would like to propose that >>> accessibility is enabled by default for GNOME development releases. >>> That is, make the /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf setting >>> be True by default for the "odd" (e.g., 2.17.x) releases. >>> >>> A couple of the reasons for doing this include the following: >>> >>> o The accessibility infrastructure will be used as part of the larger >>> testing work. Having accessibility enabled by default will make it a >>> little easier to set up and use the testing facilities. A lower barrier >>> to entry means more people might be encouraged to test. ;-) >>> >>> o We need broader use and coverage of the accessibility infrastructure. >>> Having accessibility enabled by default will help provide this. >>> >>> When we proposed this idea at the afternoon summary to all of the GNOME >>> Boston 2006 attendees, the response seemed to be fairly positive. Jeff >>> suggested posting a proposal to this list to see if we can get the ball >>> rolling. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Will >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-devel-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >>> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
