Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Dave Mielke <dave mielke cc>]

[quoted lines by Bill Haneman on 2005/09/30 at 15:54 +0100]

>It's not totally clear what the best solution is.  If, for instance, we 
>announced when the CapsLock key changed state, I might not hear the 
>message or it might have gotten interrupted by some other message.  

Or, in my case (with 11 of 13 children still at home), any number of people
could've changed the state of the key while I'm momentarily away. It'd also be
way too inconvenient to have to test the key every time before typing. It's
much better to have an on-going indication of the lock states, which, in fact,
is exactly what the keyboard LEDs give a sighted user. That's why (see earlier
post) I wrote locktones. It really does solve the problem.

>If 
>gnopernicus announced each shift state change, would that be too 
>annoying?  At least I might notice that pressing "shift" was causing 
>gnopernicus to say "lower case" (for instance) instead of "upper case".

I think that announcing state changes like that would get annoying. Every time
I start a new sentnece or type a name, I'd have to hear "upercase",
"lowercase". Also, when using an application like vi, it's essential to know
the state of the caps lock key before any key is ever typed.

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