Re: GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

Steve Lee wrote:
> 2008/10/22 Aaron Leventhal <aaronleventhal moonset net>:
>   
> > 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 really need lazy instantiation like that under Gnome. If the AT is loaded
> > and starts asking us for objects, then we can wake up.
> >     
>
> Ding! Yes, of course.
> The user should NOT have to state they want AT support for
> accessibility turned on when the fact that they are using an AT that
> want's it is enough. Ditto any desktop features that rely on AT-SPI.
>
> So we just need to get rid of the need to logout/in after turning it
> on/off and add a protocol for AT's to request it and for it to  to be
> enabled turn when an AT fires up.
>
> Does the D-BUS port give us this capability? 
Yes. For current AT-SPI we can't do this without creating new APIs. I 
think we need to think about putting this feature into DBus porting work.

Li

> We can perhaps defines
> some system messages for a11y?
>
>