Hi Henrik, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > Brian Cameron wrote: > >> I suppose it might be possible to code an on-screen keyboard directly >> into GDM, but this might be more work than you think. Note GOK supports >> "dwell" mode so that it works for users who can only manipulate a single >> button. Making an on-screen keyboard that supports the same sorts of >> disabilities that GOK supports might be tricky. >> > > I'm not sure what you mean by "dwell" mode here. In AT terminology that > usually means making mouse clicks by hovering over an area. As far as I > know GOK does not have this feature built i, but you can use KmouseTool. > We should really get this built into X IMO. You may be thinking of > switch operation, of which GOK has a much more advanced implementation > than onBoard. > > > GOK has a dwell access method, where "access method" is an expression for a "way of navigating and activating keys on the on-screen keyboard". Since the assumption is that GOK users are using a non-core pointing device, off-keyboard mouse clicks are current done by driving the core mouse pointer around the desktop via specialized gok keyboard keys. I think it would be a valuable addition to add a good Dwell core-pointer user mode to GOK sometime in the future. Note Dwell users might, as you say want to use a utility like KMouseTool + Dasher. I wish we could be informed more by our users in this regard.
cheers, David >> Text to speech would probably be hard to get working with gdmlogin, >> gdmgreeter, gdmsetup, gdmchooser and all pop-up dialogs. While it might >> be possible to do something that would work okay without AT-SPI, the >> danger is that users might end up in a situation where they don't know >> what is going on with the GUI. The advantage of AT-SPI is that it >> works better for following the focus and context of what the user is >> doing. >> > > I agree that an AT-SPI solution is probably the best if you want to > navigate all the menus of GDM and have read out exactly what they > contain. I'm just pointing out that adding the spoken line "Welcome to > <distro>. Please enter your user name." would be relatively simple to > implement (though the login sound almost serves the same purpose). > > Henrik > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
