Re: Proposed: Dasher
- From: Shaun McCance <shaunm wolfram com>
- To: GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Proposed: Dasher
- Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:22:09 -0600
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 00:45, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Dasher
> ------
>
> While Dasher has been lauded as an innovative, interesting, accessible and,
> well, game-like approach to text entry, I'm not sure it has the same kind of
> applicability to the Desktop release as the other a11y modules. Even though
> the current a11y modules are not needed by a great majority of our userbase,
> they provide a very real expression of 'universal access' (which is good
> from a cynical point of view, too), and are the really basic infrastructure
> required for deep a11y support across the desktop. I think Dasher is a bit
> different, almost in a class of its own, and is not as central to our a11y
> requirements as the other modules. At one stage it was not maintained in
> GNOME CVS, although I believe this has been rectified (or will be soon).
>
> I would love to see Dasher in a GNOME Accessibility Tools release, if there
> were other modules to go with it.
>
>
> Further discussion goes HERE. :-)
Dasher apparently has no DocBook documentation. It does, however, have
a man page.
--
Shaun
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