Re: Proposal: enable accessibility by default for GNOME

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Excellent discussion so far.  I'm going to write up a summary shortly. 
Just to clarify one thing, though, especially since this has come up 
more than once (at least in e-mail to me):

> The only downside I found when using GNOME with a11y enabled on my
> system was that somehow the mousekeys were enabled by default. This is
> very irritating when trying to login at my bank. With a single keypress
> on your numeric keypad you don't see the mouse moving that much, so you
> assume there's something flaky with keyboard setup again (yes, I also
> have a very bad experience with XKB).

The AccessX/XKB stuff is different from AT-SPI, and each is enabled 
differently.  The AccessX/XKB stuff is an X Server extension that gives 
you SlowKeys, MouseKeys, etc., whereas AT-SPI is a graphical toolkit and 
desktop infrastructure gives you the ability to have higher level 
accessibility support for testing and assistive technologies.  This 
proposal is about enabling AT-SPI support and not AccessX/XKB.

Note that this isn't meant to be a "you stupid dope" note.  :-)  Like I 
mention, it's come up more than once, so there's obviously some mental 
conflation going on about accessibility support being one big blob. 
That's completely understandable, and I hope this note helps clarify 
that AccessX/XKB and AT-SPI are at least different.

Will