Re: Possible UI freeze break: acccessibility menu in panel

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 18:45 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:32 PM, William Jon McCann
> <william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > No, it was agreed by many that we were not in a position where we can
> > turn on a11y by default for 3.0.  There is hopefully no debate at all
> > over that.  You can't have *Universal* Access without it.  I am
> > committed to providing true Universal Access.  That has been my goal
> > from the start.
> 
> Of the 10 items in the UA menu, a single one requires toolkit a11y to
> be turned on.

2, screen reader and on-screen keyboard.

> > Once again, the bottom line is that 3.0 won't have universal access in
> > the shell.  That is a fact, not my opinion.  We can't slap in older
> > technologies and pretend that we do.
> 
> The UA menu is not about shell a11y, not any more than the sound menu
> is about shell sounds.