Re: few questions

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Jason:

I think that the right place to put any new documentation or 
amplification of existing docs is in the Gnome Accessibility Guide.  I'd 
be happy to help integrate your additions and suggestions into the 
existing Accessibility Guide (which is not Sun-specific, as I am sure 
you know).

http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/

As for the 'wizard', I'd like to see this as one part of a 
"customization wizard" for the whole desktop.  Not only
would it help ensure that users who need accessibility features can find 
them, it would increase the visibility and awareness of these features 
to other users as well.

Bill

Jason Grieves wrote:

> > I wonder what features they are missing?
> >
> > We already have an 'Accessibility' button in the main keyboard 
> > preferences dialog which opens the Keyboard Accessibility Settings 
> > dialog, key-repeat is duplicated in the Keyboard Accessibility 
> > Settings dialog, and the Keyboard Accessibility Settings "MouseKeys" 
> > section includes a button which takes you to the main Mouse 
> > Preferences dialog.  So we're already pointing these different 
> > sections to one another.
> >
> > One other area where we might want to "point" from one dialog to 
> > another concerns the Theme dialog, which currently does not point to 
> > the Font dialog.
> >
> > The problem with creating a 'user profile' system is, again, that 
> > users may not think of themselves as falling into a particular 
> > category.  What, for instance, would we call a group of settings 
> > which was intended to assist "older users", i.e. slightly bigger 
> > fonts and mouse pointer, different mouse click settings, etc. ?  I 
> > for one don't really like to suggest that I'm getting older when I 
> > set up my laptop <wink>.
> >
> > Bill
>
>
> I have a document that I am writing that explains these in much 
> greater detail, but it took me quite a while to comprise all of this.
>
> Configuring Gnome for Hearing Disabilities
>
> Volume
> Visual Sound Feedback and Advanced Sound Preferences
>
> Configuring Gnome for Low-Vision or other Sighted Disabilities
>
> Themes
> Increasing Font Size
> Screen Resolution
> Toggle Keys
> Mouse Preferences
> Terminal Magnification
> File Management Settings (zooming)
>
> Configuring Gnome for Mobility Impaired Disabilities
>
> Keyboard
> AccessX + Keyboard Accessibility
> Keyboard Shortcuts
> Mouse
> Configuration Editor (again shortcut keys)
>
> Making the Login Accessible
> mobility support
> Low vision support
> Blind user support
>
> Granted the Sun Accessibility documentaiton helped me find a couple of 
> missing pieces.  I guess what makes me think people just don't know a 
> lot of this is available is the phrase "What...Linux has 
> accessibility?"  That could be a lack of wanting to investigate on 
> their part, but even as a low vision user of Linux, before working on 
> this document a lot of these features I would not have known existed 
> unless I was looking for them.
>
> Maybe we wouldn't have to label the features you talked about as 
> accessibility.  I think Microsoft has done a great job with their 
> Accessibility Wizard and design of these features.   The first user 
> action simply tries to decide how to make the wizard accessible by 
> making 3 choices with larger and larger font.  The wizard hits events 
> that in the control panel are not considered accessibility related, 
> plus accessiible options (i.e Toggle Keys).  We can't copy this design 
> obviously but  I think they have a good idea on how to handle the 
> situation which you are talking about.
>
>
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