Re: New panel logout/shutdown alert - a mini ui review

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 11 Feb, 2006, at 2:32 AM, Bill Haneman wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:54, Calum Benson wrote:
> ...
> > Just to play devil's advocate, does something as long as 2 minutes (I
> > forget if that's how long it is in GNOME, but it is in OS X) really
> > count as a "timeout" in the conventional sense?
> ...
> I accept your logic from a commonsense approach; my hunch is that any
> timeout longer than 1 minute is probably not a major accessibility
> problem (though I may be missing some important user scenario here).
> HOWEVER, the legal requirements for accessibility, at least in the US,
> don't make that distinction, and thus any distro that wanted to meet
> accessibility regulations would probably be obliged to patch the 
> feature out.
> ...

Section 508's requirements for "Software applications and operating 
systems" don't mention timeouts or anything like them.
<http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12#Software>

Is there some other legal requirement you are referring to?

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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