On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 06:45, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Dasher > ------ > > While Dasher has been lauded as an innovative, interesting, accessible and, > well, game-like approach to text entry, I'm not sure it has the same kind of > applicability to the Desktop release as the other a11y modules. Even though > the current a11y modules are not needed by a great majority of our userbase, > they provide a very real expression of 'universal access' (which is good > from a cynical point of view, too), and are the really basic infrastructure > required for deep a11y support across the desktop. I think Dasher is a bit > different, almost in a class of its own, and is not as central to our a11y > requirements as the other modules. At one stage it was not maintained in > GNOME CVS, although I believe this has been rectified (or will be soon). > > I would love to see Dasher in a GNOME Accessibility Tools release, if there > were other modules to go with it. I think the desktop should be as accessible as possible "out of the box." This is something historically computer desktops have not been brilliant at, since they haven't been accessible :) Although I'm not an a11y expert, I think it should be included since it adds another big chunk of "support" to the a11y jigsaw. I'm not sure what the advantage would be in splitting out Accessibility Tools unless they were *all* split out, which would make the default desktop unaccessible. Hrm. Maybe there would be a different case if we had as many a11y tools as we do IRC clients, but we don't. -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org> The opinions here are my own, and aren't necessarily representative of the foundation or release team.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part