Re: Enabling accessibility by default for GNOME?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 01 juillet 2008, à 15:07 -0400, Willie Walker a écrit :
> Hey All:
>
> I realize this question comes up from time to time, but I'm curious about 
> your thoughts of enabling accessibility by default for GNOME 2.24?
>
> A number of stumbling and stability blocks have been removed (e.g., that 
> darn "at-spi-registryd failed to start" dialog is now gone), and it would 
> be a good service to our testers and end users to have a11y enabled by 
> default.
>
> For risks, however, there's the question of someone running a spyware 
> application that captures keystrokes (as there would be for anyone able to 
> get to the DISPLAY of the user), and we're potentially moving to DBus from 
> CORBA for 2.26, resulting in potential instability.

Another risk is that things can get slower with a11y turned on (I
remember fixing this in the workspace switcher properties -- it turned
out to be code that was "less than optimized", but it wasn't noticable
without a11y).

One other issues is the shortcuts to enable some keyboard behaviors,
like slow keys. If you press shift during 5 seconds, you can be hit by
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303136
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536270

> In any case, I'm curious about your thoughts before I consider raising this 
> on desktop-devel.  That is, if you kill it here, I won't raise it there.  
> ;-)

I'm for it, at least during the development cycle.

Vincent

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