Re: [orca-list] am I crazy

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

While I'm not disgusted by it, I haven't had any real accessibility  
nightmares with the panel that others seem to have had, I'd agree it  
would be confusing  even for sighted users. In general, changing tasks  
like that should not be done unless there's a good reason, and should  
not be confined to a panel applet in any case. Panel applets can crash  
and, if it does go down, for all intents and purposes there's no quick  
and easy way to shut down via the GUI without reloading the applet. I  
don't find it a huge accessibility concern, as I've been able to use  
the panel fine and that applet is one of the few with an accessible  
label, , but I don't like it for these other reasons.


On Feb 24, 2009, at 16:51, Luke Yelavich wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:19:42AM EST, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > Hi
> > You're not crazy. They seem to have moved this to the "switch users  
> > or
> > shutdown" panel applet. Even in Jaunty this is a recent change,  
> > only a
> > few days old. I thought the same thing when my shutdown menu
> > disappeared, it's nice to know I'm not crazy :).
>
> I will be reverting this for accessibility installs. I found this  
> out yesterday, and am totally disgusted by it. I don't even think it  
> makes sense for fully able users. I am sure many of them will get  
> confused/annoyed as well.
>
> Luke
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