Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

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]
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> > mY TOUCH TYPING IS A LITTLE
> > ROUGH TOO.
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> 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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