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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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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