Hi, thanks for the detailed explanation. Look forward to the wiki article. cheers
On 30/03/16 16:03, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 09:31:46PM AEDT, Pavel Vlček wrote: >> Hi, >> after today's update, when I press alt f10 key, I get accessibility >> profiles menu. I am using Orca normally, but no profile was selected. >> I changed it to screen reader witch speech. What changet? I am using >> Ubuntu daily, to install the Ubuntu, I used live dvd from 10th March. > Accessibility profiles are a way to facilitate the configuration of the > Ubuntu desktop for people with disabilities. An accessibility profile > contains settings that improve the usage of the desktop environment for > particular assistive technologies. > > Accessibility profiles have been around for many years now, I think as early > as Ubuntu 8.04, if not earlier, however until now, they have not been as easy > to work with. For one, they were only available in the live session or the > installer, and for another, they were not available post install, and were > hard coded in a shell script, that was only present in the live environment. > > As of Ubuntu 16.04, the accessibility profile system has been much > improved. The profiles are available on the live session, and during > installation, and also available post install. So for example, you can now > create a new user, log into that user, and enable a particular accessibility > profile for them, without having to manually tweak a bunch of settings. > > What you are seeing is the new accessibility profiles indicator. By default, > the indicator is enabled when any accessibility profile is enabled, > to allow the switching between profiles if the user so desires. The > indicator can be turned off from the universal access control panel, > under the accessibility profiles tab. > > One other advantage of the new accessibility profile system is you can now > create your own profiles, and they will appear in the indicator alongside > other profiles. The profile system allows for any gsettings key to be > changed when a profile is enabled. Creating a profile is not yet documented, > and thats something I have to work on, and it will likely be put on the > Ubuntu wiki under the accessibility section. > > Unfortunately due to time constraints, I was not able to implement this > support for all Gtk/GNOME based flavours of Ubuntu. Doing so would require > adding UI to the various desktop environments to allow the profiles > indicator or equivalent to be enabled/disabled. I would also have to > code extra modules to properly support GNOME shell, and Mate's own panel > applet system. Once this work is done however, the design is such that it > would then be possible for profiles to contain settings specifically for a > particular desktop environment, so you could have settings for mate that > would be applied when the profile is enabled, and those settings would > not be enabled under Unity or GNOME shell. > > Luke > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
