Re: Accessible Only Desktop Strategy Sought

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

As GNOME 2.8 is released I thought it useful to suggest an enhancement
for GNOME 2.10 which will certainly follow. First, congrats to all who
worked on accessibility in GNOME. While it is clear there's still a long
way to go for blind (and some other users), it's also clear that much
has been accomplished. I have only to remember how we tore our hair out
over X back in the early 1990's to realize how far we have come.

I do have a suggestion that I think is vital for end users, and I'd love
to hear others' thoughts -- as well as suggestions for how such a thing
might be implemented.

As a user of eyes-free interfaces (Gnopernicus, Orca), I'd like NOT to
be presented with applications that aren't going to work for me. It's
particularly annoying (and confusing) to have an application on my menu
go silent when I attempt to launch it. At best, it's highly distracting.
Certainly it slows me down and prevents me from spending time where I
might expect benefit.

Is there a way to use available application data to flag apps that just
aren't going to be accessible through the AT-SPI? And, if they can be
flagged, can we then keep them off the application menu entirely? (the
Alt-F1 menu?).


Jesper Ryge Leth writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to write an application that uses gnomes accessibility 
> interface (at-spi) in conjunction with Gtk+ on top of DirectFB. I have 
> however been running into problems and I would like to hear if anyone 
> have any experience with this combination of APIs and have made it work
> 
> My problem is that whenever I link against the directfb enabled version 
> of  Gtk (2.4.9 from directfbs cvs) it refuses to load the atk bridge and 
> gail. Does anyone know if there is a reason why this combination should 
> not work?
> 
> I have asked a similar question to the people on the DirectFB mail list 
> in the hope that there are someone on either of the lists that have had 
> the same problems.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any input or suggestions
> 
> /Jesper
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

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