RE: GEP-11: Application list for 2.4 - Accessibility

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 07:26, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> AT = "Accessibility Technology", right?

Right.

> By the way, how will people be able to turn on the accessibility technology
> support before the accessibility technology support is turned on? Will
> accessible PCs always need to be setup by someone else?

Good question, that probably needs to be answered by the a11y hackers
rather than me :)  From my usability point of view, one solution might
be to always have accessibility support enabled on the login screen, at
least on systems where there's a possibility that users might require
it.  Then if a user actually uses any ATs to help them log in, turn on
the AT support switch and start the corresponding ATs automatically when
their session starts up too.  I don't know whether that's technically
possible though.

(After a user's first login, hopefully the combination of gconf and
session management would take care of remembering what ATs the user
wants to run by default).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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