Re: the keyboard accessibility capplet

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

>  - the "enable keyboard accessibility" checkbox is bad; most users
>    here will interpret it to mean "make my keyboard work" and wonder
>    why they would uncheck it.

I get the feeling that the term "accessibility" itself is inherently 
misleading.

The dictionary definition is too generic: "The ability to be accessed". 
 But certainly every user would like to access his/her computer, as 
Havoc pointed out.  It really means to say "the ability to be accessed 
by somebody with a handicap, or disability, or ackward situation" (thus 
the handicap icon), but this isn't apparent unless you understand the 
special domain-specific definition of the word "accessibility".  The 
word used to describe these features really ought to make sense to non 
usability hackers...

It's also the first item in the menu (being alphabetical), which means 
it's the first item that users will see when browsing preferences, which 
means that people are very likely to investigate changing it -- but it's 
the *least* likely item that users would want to change.  This is 
somewhat compounded by the fact that the second preferences group is 
"Advanced".  It's unfortunate that the least-frequent options both start 
with the letter "A".