Re: Feature Proposal: Accessibility on by default

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 13:12 +0200, Piñeiro wrote:
> On 04/25/2012 02:37 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> >> As the plugin does not do anything when no AT is loaded, 
> > OK; that seems to be a relatively recent change (from my admittedly
> > distant perspective).  If that's true, and recently the primary cost of
> > a11y has (at least in theory) been deferred to when an AT is loaded,
> > then I'm totally in favor of this change.
> 
> This change was made the last year. It started with this commit [1],
> that prevented to add event listeners if no AT is listening. This also
> includes the creation of the accessible objects or the message
> forwarding to DBUS. Additionally, one student was making some tests to
> check if this leads to a real improvement of the performance/memory
> consumption when accessibility is on but no accessibility technology is
> listening [2]. This change was made the last year, tested and debugged
> since then.

I see, very nice work!  Thanks for explaining this to me.