Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Thomas Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Well, I would like to certainly here if the caps key changed state like
caps on or caps off. I guess that is because I am use to the WWindows
screen readers do it.
However, there may be other methods such as a feature say cap t, cap
acap b, etc when the caplock key is on and when the shift keys are used.


On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 15:54 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave:
> 
> You are absolutely right about the case-inversion problem.  Perhaps I 
> would have noticed if I were using braille, but it's a problem that 
> bites many users.  Peter and I have mentioned this to the gnopernicus 
> team before.
> 
> It's not totally clear what the best solution is.  If, for instance, we 
> announced when the CapsLock key changed state, I might not hear the 
> message or it might have gotten interrupted by some other message.  If 
> gnopernicus announced each shift state change, would that be too 
> annoying?  At least I might notice that pressing "shift" was causing 
> gnopernicus to say "lower case" (for instance) instead of "upper case".
> 
> Who would like to file the bug?  I am guessing this is a gnopernicus RFE.
> 
> Bill
> 
> >[quoted lines by Bill Haneman on 2005/09/30 at 09:12 +0100]
> >
> >  
> >
> >>mY TOUCH TYPING IS A LITTLE
> >>ROUGH TOO.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Please note that one of the problems you encountered, which would indeed make
> >an employee of a company look stupid, is that you had the case inverted, i.e. 
> >that which should've been lowercase was in uppercase and vice versa. This is
> >such a simple thing, yet it'd make such a bad (and wrong) impression. It's
> >little things like this which users would notice because it'd make others
> >notice them and incorrectly perceive incompetence.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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