Hi,
Maybe that I should add a few words for the pointer only users. (In the following, "pointer users" means users that are able to move the pointer in any direction, but that are not able to perform any input with a hardware keyboard.) a) For pointer users able to click, karmic provides a system that they can use out of the box. - GDM has been patched so that it starts onboard as the onscreen keyboard. (onboard is the onscreen keyboard shipping with ubuntu already for several releases) - Onboard is also available in the GNOME session and its desktop icons are in the Universal Access menu. However, this menu and the desktop icons are hidden on a default Ubuntu a installation; but it is possible to use the Main Menu control panel to make them appear. So, a default Ubuntu Karmic installation can be used by these users without help from anybody. b) For pointer users not able to click, karmic is also usable, but only after a person able to click has performed a few configurations needed by these users. Fortunately, Ubuntu (to be more precise, it is already shipped in GNOME) ships by default an accessibility tool called mousetweaks that allows these users to perform pointer clicks by software. - GDM is not accessible for pointer users that cannot click. A person with administrative privileges can set up GDM to launch mousetweaks in conjunction with onboard. Instructions about how to do it can be found in the Help of GDM. Remarks: -- I don't know whether Assistive Technology is running in GDM on a system out of the box. As mousetweaks requires Assistive Technology, GDM has to be configuration configuration configured to run it if it is not already the case. Instructions about how to do it can be found in the Help of GDM. -- These users must never deactivate the onscreen keyboard in GDM, because it will also deactivate dwelling and they will not be able to reactivate it without the help of another person. - The GNOME session is also not accessible for these people out of the box, but the solution is simple: Assistive Technology has to be activated for the GNOME session and the dwell click applet has to be installed on the GNOME panel. Once this has been done, the GNOME session becomes accessible also for pointer users that are not able to click. There is however a bug that has to be mentioned: In fact, there is an incompatibility between gksu and Assistive Technology. For example, if you open the Synaptic Package Manager, the gksu dialog for authentication appears. After entering the password, the desktop begins to become a bit irresponsive. To make the desktop fully responsive again, the user has to kill the gksu process in the dialog. To not get into this situation, a work around is to call the applications that use gksu directly from the terminal with sudo. (The authentication dialog of policykit does not have this problem.) Cheers Francesco Nolan Darilek wrote: > Anyone using it regularly? Lots of folks not using accessibility seem to > be having good luck with it, so I'm thinking of making the upgrade. How > is it from an accessibility perspective? And are there any more > potential audio breaking changes planned? > > Thanks. > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
