Hi Brian, Will HCLPI theme be there too?
-Tim On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:36 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Mathias: > > > Ok, I agree, that it is ridiculous that currently accessibility has to > > be activated manually. > > Agreed. > > > What makes me wonder: Can't we improve our to enable those features on > > demand? As far as I understand the accessibility tool chain it consists > > of those components: > > In GDM 2.20 and earlier, it supported the ability to define keypress > (hotkey), mouse-button-press, and dwell gestures (implemented by > moving the mouse in-and-out of the login screen in various patterns). > These gestures were used to launch AT programs on demand as needed by > users. > > With the new GDM rewrite, these features were dropped. Now that GDM > uses gnome-settings-daemon, it was suggested that the best way for > this to work would be to implement such on-demand AT launching features > in gnome-settings-daemon in a way that it would work for both the > login screen and the user session. Presumably you could also use a > similar (or the same) mechanism when installing. This way the same > mechanisms work in all places. > > It was discussed that there probably needs to be 3 types of programs > that can be started via this mechanism: > > - an On-screen keyboard (would be nice to support both dwell-type > and single-button type users separately) > - a magnifier > - text-to-speech and braille support > > Most likely these features would be launched in a > lowest-common-denominator fashion so that it would work for the most > users. The idea being that users would then navigate to the preferences > to best configure how they want a particular AT program to work. This > would obviously be a one-time event for the user session. > > It is probably also necessary to support hotkey, button-press, and > dwell gestures for launching the three types of programs to support > the widest range of users with accessibility needs. However, the dwell > method implemented in GDM (moving the mouse in-and-out of the login > window) probably doesn't make as much sense when running in a user > session. However, there are other "dwell" type gestures that could > be implemented that would be more generally useful (such as moving > the mouse to points in the screen in some pattern or something). > > To me, this seems the best approach. > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
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