Re: Dialog buttons

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Andrew MacGinitie wrote:

> 1. too easy for the system to read a double keystroke where only
> one was intended, e.g., which might be even more true for someone with
> a disability?

A good point, but ideally this shouldn't be an issue as the desktop
should have some sort of adjustable debounce setting that prevents
double keystrokes from being read mistakenly.  For X-based systems, this
can be done via the AccessX features in the XKEYBOARD extension:

http://cmos-eng.rehab.uiuc.edu/accessx/overview.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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