** Also affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067166
Title:
Please design an accessibility status menu
Status in Ayatana Design:
New
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
As a legacy from GNOME 2, Unity includes a hidden accessibility menu
that is pretty much useless. To activate, open System Settings and
click Universal Access. Switch to the Typing tab and enable
accessibility features from the keyboard.
The a11y menu uses the blue accessibility icon. It should instead use
the mono accessibility icon from unity-greeter (and a ubuntu-mono-
light version will need to be created).
The a11y menu has only one button. Clicking the button opens a pop-up
window with almost all of the choices broken since 11.10....and pretty
much nobody noticed. (Screenshots attached)
We need a redesigned a11y status menu ("indicator").
We should look to GNOME's a11y menu for inspiration. We should
seriously consider enabling the menu by default as it makes it
significantly easier for someone to turn on the screen keyboard or
mouse keys if for some reason their keyboard isn't connected or is
malfunctioning. As a counterpoint, the "Remove Accessibility"
extension is GNOME Shell's most popular extension but that is at least
partly to blame that the developers didn't include a built-in way to
disable it.
And by the way, unity-greeter has an a11y menu with three options:
Onscreen keyboard
High Contrast Ctrl+H
Screen Reader Ctrl+S
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