Ang. GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

[Mats Lundälv <mats lundalv vgregion se>]

Hi all,
This is an important discussion. Thanks
Tom and Ian for confirming the user need for allowing smooth moving into,
and out of, AT support! 
And you all seem to refer only to use
cases concerning adult, relatively advanced and independant user scenarios.

Widen that to school and home use for
children, and for adult users with multiple impairments, causing more dependency
on assistance, and it should be obvious that this is an real issue. Accessibility
must be combined with usability, and this aspect must not lag behind in
Unix/Linux compared to what's expected and normal in Windows and Mac environments.

There seem to be some promising techy
suggestion on how to handle this, but also quite a challenge in terms of
work and dependencies :-/
Mats Lundälv

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Hi

We seem so far to be inter mingleing both Gnome and Windows into this
discussion.  Could people please state which OS their comments apply
to in
the first instance?

If I understand what Will has said, the current situation is very much
akin
to a chicken and egg one - we want AT to be dynamic, and only load when
required, but for it to load when required it currently needs to be already
loaded and running.

I certainly agree with Tom's use case scenarios.  When I'm using the
PC and
another family member wishes to use it, they get annoyed by the AT being
active so disable it - I am unaware of how this impeeds on their experience.

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