Re: [g-a-devel] GNOME Accessibility presentation - contribution to stock GNOME presentations

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 1 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Dave Neary wrote:

> Hi Willie,
>
> Willie Walker wrote:
> > http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/dwell-click.avi
> > http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/theming.avi
> > http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/keyboard-enhancements.avi
> > http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/enable-a11y.avi
>
> Cool stuff! You used "recordmydesktop", you say?
>
> One piece of feedback: I've found in my demos that setting high  
> contrast
> large print inverse makes the desktop hard to put back the way it was,

If you mean that there's no quick way to revert the font size, then  
yes, it's a pain, but one that has apparently never been considered  
important enough to fix (see <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104913 
>, for example.)

It's slightly less of a pain now that the Theme and Fonts settings are  
reunited in the same dialog, but the lack of any way to set/increase/ 
decrease all the disparate font sizes at the same time is still a  
hassle (even disregarding a11y issues.)

> and some windows behave badly with the theme (some dialogs grows off  
> the
> edge of the screen and I can't get at the buttons to dismiss the
> dialog). Have you found the same thing?

This problem is kind of tough to deal with automatically, I'd  
imagine.  Only generic fix I can think of would be an option to  
automatically reposition windows as you keynav through them, to ensure  
that the focused control was always on-screen (a bit like the screen  
magnifier does when following keyboard focus, but without any actual  
screen magnification involved).  But that doesn't help so much if you  
don't/can't use the keyboard.

The best 'fix' is really for applications to follow the HIG's advice,  
and test their dialogs with large print fonts on small displays.  But  
that's not always a realistic constraint for complex dialogs.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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