Re: [g-a-devel] Accessibility in Preferred Applications

[George Kraft IV <gk4 austin ibm com>]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 20:52 -0200, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Di�es
wrote:
> It's really desirable to have gnome-mag listed in the Magnifier option?
> gnome-mag was not designed to be runned stand-alone and doing so could
> make the user have the perception that the application is buggy.

I think there are several solutions.

1) have the end-user create a custom "command" in Preferred Applications
to start the screen reader with magnifier (eg., "gnopernicus -m").
   http://www.cactus.org/~gk4/gnome/prefapps.png
2) create a 2nd configuration for a screen reader that says with
magnifier (eg., "gnopernicus", "gnopernicus with gnome-mag").
3) add "mouse tracking" to gnome-mag's PropertyBag so the screen reader
can remotely control it.  the screen reader uses Bonobo to tell gnome-
mag to turn off mouse tracking.

The problem with scenarios 1 and 2 above is that the end-user will have
to know not to explicitly configure a magnifier.  Hopefully that will be
obvious.

The problem not having a magnifier option in Preferred Applications is
that it would hardcode gnome-mag and not leave room for kmag or one of
the many other magnifiers found on sourceforge.net, or beging able to
use the window manager's built-in magnifier (eg., "metacity-mag-config
start").

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2006-
August/msg00023.html

George (gk4)