Re: Adding ATs to the menus

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

I think adding an Accessibility submenu is the best option in any case.
It would be a logical place for screen readers, and other accessibility apps
such as braille translation software, dictation applications when they are
created and are released for use on the gnome desktop.



----- Original Message -----
From: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
To: <desktop-devel-list gnome org>; <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 7:50 AM
Subject: Adding ATs to the menus


> Ok, so as you know, we're hoping GOK and Gnopernicus are going to make
> it into GNOME 2.4.  Even if they don't, we need to figure this one out
> anyway :)
>
> GNOME applications generally add themselves to the Applications menu.
> Assuming that's a reasonable thing to do for ATs[1], we have three items
> to add: "Magnifier", "On-Screen Keyboard" and "Screenreader".  Which
> gives us two choices:
>
> - Add them to one of the existing Applications categories
> ("Accessories"?)
>
> - Add a new Accessibility sub-menu, which would be more consistent with
> the Accessibility preferences sub-menu (and which will soon have more
> than one item in it, you'll all be pleased to hear!)
>
> Of those two, what would be peoples' preferred solution?
>
> With regard to the second alternative, I remember there was some unease
> when we added the Accessibility preferences sub-menu, partly because it
> only had one item it at the time, and partly because it appeared right
> at the top of the list-- as would the Accessibility applications
> sub-menu.  I think Bill's said in the past he'd be happy to call these
> menus "Universal Access" or something instead, though, so that's always
> something we can consider if that turned out to be the only
> objection[2].
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
> [1] A user who needs ATs will normally  turn them on in the
> (forthcoming) AT Preferences window, which will add them to their
> session until they turn them off again.  So is there a pressing need to
> add them to the Applications menu at all?  Probably yes, at least for
> the magnifier which I could imagine you might want to turn on and off
> during the course of a session, but I could be wrong...
>
> [2] Although that might not help much in those languages that choose to
> place their adjectives after their nouns :)
>
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