Re: Adding ATs to the menus

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 15:05, Pat Costello wrote:

> What's wrong with having the Accessibility menu item first in the Applications 
> menu? 

There's nothing wrong with it per se, there was just some concern when
the Accessibility prefs menu was added that it was 'prioritising' a
feature (by dint of it happening to be listed first, in English-speaking
locales) that few people ever really needed to look at.

Hopefully most folk will agree that's a non-argument this time around,
especially now that the Accessibility prefs menu is about to fill out
some, and also given the number of posters to g-a-l recently who are
desperate to get Gnopernicus working on their machines :)

Other possible arguments for just adding the ATs to the Accessories
menu, though, could be (a) the menu is already quite big, and (b)
accessibility features ought not to be fenced off into a corner when
more often than not they offer wider usability benefits to all.  I think
(b) probably doesn't apply so much to the specialised technologies we're
talking about here, though... well, unless you just want to class
gnome-mag as a GNOME port of the ever-useful xmag :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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