Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Luke Yelavich <linuxaccess themuso com>]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 12:54:22AM EST, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Dave:
> 
> 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".

There is also the PC speaker beeps. Screen readers in Windows say caps 
change states, but Windows has also got a features to beep whenever the 
state of numlock, capslock, or scroll lock change.

Would this be feesable?

Luke