Re: [g-a-devel]Re: desktop-devel-list digest, Vol 1 #655 - 12 msgs

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

> I believe that the folks doing GOK development are accustomed to the
> scenario where a physical therapist or other specialist helps a
> motor-impaired user get their system set up, and thus this specialist
> would help customize and configure GOK.  However since we'd like to
> bundle GOK with the GNOME desktop, I suggest that this solution will not
> always be the best, and we'd like to have a means for end users to
> configure and learn GOK by themselves whenever possible.
Agreed, it is a worthy goal.

> This suggests several things to me; in order to make sure that GOK's
> help and configuration are available to as wide an audience as possible,
> we may want to provide more than one way to do basic tasks like bringing
> up a Help menu, and bringing up the 'Settings' menu.  We could also
> configure GOK in a default mode that would be the most likely to work
> without additional hardware, for instance using mouse buttons for input
> events.  Also the first time GOK is run it could put up a
> multi-input-method dialog, a sort of 'Input Method Wizard' (planned by
> the GOK team I believe), which could be designed so that users could
> select an appropriate input method regardless of their disbility. 
> Therefore the wizard would have to work with both point-and-dwell
> methods, direct click methods, mouse button presses, joystick input
> events, etc. depending on what the user had available.
Yes, this would be obviously valuable in providing greater independance.

> The use of GOK which we have been discussing, basically using it as a
> keyboard 'intermediary', is somewhat more unusual but could be
> configured the same way.
I think I'll have to check the archives here?  Certainly there are lots 
of potential uses for GOK other than for what it is primarily intended...

> I suggest that we could continue this discussion on the
> "gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org" list
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
>
> where I think the GOK maintainers will see the discussion and be able to
> reply more directly.
>
> The 'bootstrapping' and configuration part of GOK is important and these
> are good questions to raise.  Personally I like the idea of including
> 'Help' in the GOK onscreen buttons.
I think we will add this button (redundancy is good).

Sorry for my brevity I just wanted you to know that I am on the same 
page.  We are of course struggling to get a stable, and fairly robust 
release ready - but these discussions are always welcome.

cheers,

~~David

> -Bill
>
> > > Given that the main gok screen has a permanently unused 'back' button,
> > > perhaps that could be changed to a help button?
> > But suppose on-screen part of gok isn't working the button is no help, gok
> > builders likely have ideas. & i work the keyboard like a Chess match maybe
> > i'll get idea :)
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bryan Campbell
>
>
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