Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

This is a common pattern. I hear it is also true for other things in FF
like dom mutation events.... only fire if there is a listener... makes a
lot of sense.

A tree should only fall in the forest if someone is listening. <grin>

D
Aaron Leventhal wrote:
> Mario, on Windows we use lazy instantiation. There is no need for an
> "enable a11y" flag in the OS. Just the fact that something asks us for
> an accessible object wakes us up. We get a WM_GETOBJECT event -- and
> before that a11y is not loaded.
>
> We really need lazy instantiation like that under Gnome. If the AT is
> loaded and starts asking us for objects, then we can wake up.
>
> - Aaron
>