Re: the keyboard accessibility capplet

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 04:21, James Henstridge wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> >A nicer approach to that might be:
> >"[  ] Pressing <whatever the key sequence is> enables bounce keys"
> >
> >I think Windows just has this always enabled, and chooses sort of
> >obscure key sequences so no one will do it accidentally - I could be
> >wrong.
> >
> In Win2k at least, you can turn on most of these options with a key 
> combo (things like press shift 5 times, hold a key down for some length 
> of time, etc).  The first time you perform the key combo it pops up a 
> dialog asking you if you really want to enable the feature and gives you 
> a chance to turn it off permanently (can be reenabled in the control 
> panel).  This seems to work quite well.

AccessX can do this too,  and I believe it does by default.  But that
feature in itself is not enough, since users have to know about it in
advance.

> James.
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