Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

I recently had a nice discussion with the release team about the 
viability of enabling accessibility (i.e., the AT-SPI infrastructure) by 
default for GNOME.  As a result of that discussion, I'm approaching the 
broader GNOME community with a proposal to do this.  :-)

Accessibility has currently enabled by default for development builds 
since 2.17 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362457), so there 
has hopefully been a fair amount of testing-in-the-large with it 
already.  We also recently got rid of one of the last obviously nasty 
things it was doing -- gnome-session no longer pops up that annoying 
"the at-spi infrastructure didn't start" window.

So, I'd like to open the idea of enabling accessibility by default for 
GNOME 2.24.  Digging back to bug #362457, which is where we enabled a11y 
for development builds, I *think* the thing to do is modify libgnome's 
configure.in (see http://svn.gnome.org/svn/libgnome/trunk/configure.in). 
 Here's a pseudo patch:

-LIBGNOME_MINOR_VERSION=libgnome_minor_version
-if test $(( $(echo $LIBGNOME_MINOR_VERSION) %2)) = "1"; then
-    A11Y_ENABLED=true
-else
-    A11Y_ENABLED=false
-fi
+A11Y_ENABLED=true

This would ultimately result in schemas/desktop_gnome_interface.schemas 
enabling accessibility by default.

Thoughts?

Will