Re: the keyboard accessibility capplet
- From: Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: the keyboard accessibility capplet
- Date: 26 Sep 2002 09:51:27 +0100
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 01:14, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > * there is "prior art" in GUIs for this (yes, known to users as
> > "AccessX"), and users who need keyboard accessibility help have grown
> > strongly attached to features in that prior art. That includes not only
> > the CDE AccessX control panel, but GUIs for AccessX from several rehab
> > centers, etc.
>
> By this argument we should be copying CDE in a lot more places.
Why do you think my argument suggests this? Prior art here is important
since it's cross-platform and cross-desktop; I am not just talking about
CDE here, I am talking about the majority of the prior art for
Unix/Linux keyboard accessibility, (with the exception of command-line
interfaces for AccessX), and even some Windows keyboard accessibility
(before Windows had it built-in).
If you must draw an analogy, that's why we are using menus,
mouse-clicks, onscreen-buttons, in GNOME instead of inventing totally
new UI models: because they are the convention for GUIS.
> The
> more important prior art in terms of number of users is probably the
> Windows XP accessibility capplet - which is MUCH MUCH better arranged
> than ours, but has similar features.
It's worth looking at XP, but the requirements for our existing capplet
were already obtained from multiple domain experts in accessibility, I
don't see why we think we are better qualified to determine them than
they are.
If we discuss the requirements further, the discussion should move to
gnome-accessibility-list, so that other knowledgeable voices can
contribute as well.
-Bill
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