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

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Willie Walker wrote:
> 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.
>   

GOK does it too :-P

David

> 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
> > >
> > >
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