Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

[David Bolter <dtb gnome org>]

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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