Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Agreed.  In an earlier implementation of AccessX, we had
a ToggleKeys feature that would provide an audible indication
when the state of a lockable key changed.  I'm sitting behind
an archaic system right now, so I cannot test whether we
rolled this forward into XKB and/or whether the GNOME
implementation of the AccessX client supports this feature.

But...your implementation of locktones has some useful ideas
that ToggleKeys does not have:

   o Different tones for different keys

   o "--active" to play the tone continuously vs. only when
     the state changes

If XKB were ever updated, these would be nice RFE's.

Will


Dave Mielke wrote On 09/30/05 13:36,:
> [quoted lines by Willie Walker on 2005/09/30 at 13:11 -0400]
> 
> 
>>Orca attempts to address this problem by using a different
>>"voice" when speaking uppercase characters/words.  The
>>default is to merely raise the pitch of the normal voice,
>>but it is configurable to be any voice from any synthesizer
>>one might want to use.
> 
> 
> That'd certainly work for those using speech. Even when using braille, however,
> it's still nice to know the state of the lock(s) before typing. Consider those
> applications which perform major functions in response to single key presses,
> and wherein the function performed by a letter key is case sensitive.
>