Re: accessebility suggestion for Ubuntu 6.06 LiveCD

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> The "new onscreen keyboard" does not meet the needs of many
> mobility-impaired users.   GOK should be bundled with the LiveCD - once
> some configuration issues are dealt with.
>   
Do you have any specific use cases that GOK supports but SOK does not? 
The only one I can think of is users of scanning devices who need to 
perform actions on the desktop that cannot be achieved with standard 
keyboard shortcuts (but in my view that's a bug in those applications).

SOK currently works well with head pointing devices and we are adding 
scanning device support. We currently do not have direct AT-SPI 
functionality but we are making a script feature that will let us 
control desktop functions via dog-tail.

You can grab a copy for testing here: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Projects/SOK

> I am not sure this is the best technical way to solve the problem.  IMO
> for anything other than shared use kiosks, it makes more sense to put
> the "access keys" in the login screen such that the AT-SPI support is
> automatically loaded in the user's session.
>   

Yes that would also be good. Is there a standard set of such GDM access 
keys? This really is something that should be enabled by default, both 
in Gnome and in Ubuntu.
> Henrik - Carlos Diogenes is working on adding Composite to gnome-mag,
> which would make it work as a drop-in enhancement.  You probably should
> ping him about this, it makes little sense to duplicate work.
>   

Great, I will contact him. We just want to see this implemented, and 
don't care too much where or by whom. gnome-mag is probably the best 
place for it.

- Henrik