Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME



GNOME should be accessible "out of the box", and I'd enjoy being able to tell people it is... so a big +1 from me.
cheers,
David
Willie Walker wrote:
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
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