Re: Proposal to enable accessibility by default for GNOME development releases

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

OK - I'll answer my own question - this approach doesn't seem to do what
we want.  In testing and testing with this, the problem is that some
assistive technologies depend upon the existence and value of the key
itself: if it's not enabled, they let the user know and then enable it.
I embarassingly know this now because that's what Orca does, and I'm
pretty sure it's what Gnopernicus does.

So....

It seems as though the right thing to do is enable accessibility in the
default schema for development releases.  Anyone have a clue for how to
do this?

Will

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 11:12 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> This has festered for a little bit without further comment, so I'd like
> to poke it one more time to try to get this in for the GNOME 2.17.2
> tarballs.  Please speak up if you disagree and/or don't like the
> proposed patch (and you have a constructive alternative solution ;-)):
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362457
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Will
> 
> On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 19:18 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi All:
> > 
> > As part of the GNOME Boston 2006 Accessibility Summit, and as part of
> > the larger GNOME testing discussions, we would like to propose that
> > accessibility is enabled by default for GNOME development releases.
> > That is, make the /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf setting
> > be True by default for the "odd" (e.g., 2.17.x) releases.
> > 
> > A couple of the reasons for doing this include the following:
> > 
> > o The accessibility infrastructure will be used as part of the larger
> > testing work.  Having accessibility enabled by default will make it a
> > little easier to set up and use the testing facilities.  A lower barrier
> > to entry means more people might be encouraged to test.  ;-)
> > 
> > o We need broader use and coverage of the accessibility infrastructure.
> > Having accessibility enabled by default will help provide this.
> > 
> > When we proposed this idea at the afternoon summary to all of the GNOME
> > Boston 2006 attendees, the response seemed to be fairly positive.  Jeff
> > suggested posting a proposal to this list to see if we can get the ball
> > rolling.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Will
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > desktop-devel-list mailing list
> > desktop-devel-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list