Gestures are definitely a very good way to launch the assistive technologies. The work Jon McCann and company are doing with gnome-session and gdm should also make the gestures available in a logged-in session as well.
Thanks! Will On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 17:29 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Shaun McCance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That sounds nice, but I don't > > see how just enabling AT-SPI et al accomplishes this. > > > > For instance, if a blind user logs in, she'll still have > > to navigate to the accessibility preferences to enable a > > screen reader. Granted, with accessibility already loaded, > > she won't have to log out and back in. But it's still five > > or so completely blind clicks she has to manage to make. > > > > Since you don't seem to be proposing enabling any particular > > accessibility tool by default (and enabling them all would > > be insane), what's the proposal for how to deal with this? > > To an average user, the core infrastructure being loaded > > doesn't mean anything if the tool she needs isn't there. > > Hotkey/gesture activation at the GDM prompt level (at least it used to > work this way). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
