Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

["Jason Grieves" <jasongrieves hotmail com>]

Gnome does have ToggleKeys 
(Desktop>Preferences>Keyboard>Accessibility>Filter Keys)

Is there documentation Bill for the extensions + magnifier you talked about? 
 If they are enabled, does the magnifier grep for them and use them 
automatically?  Do I need to re-compile?

Thanks!


Jason G.
Mathew 11:28-30




> Hi Jason, All:
>
> Magnification has come a long way in the past 6 to 12 months.  And a 
> serious bug affecting high magnification ratios was fixed only recently 
> (and will be in the next gnome-mag version, for gnome-2.12.1 on Monday).  
> So for good results, you need a recent gnome-mag and a recent Xserver, 
> preferably XOrg 6.8.1 or later, or a recent XSun (i.e. as provided with 
> Solaris 10).  The key features are the 'DAMAGE' and 'XFIXES' xserver 
> extensions, which you can check for by running "xdpyinfo".
>
> On such an up to date system, you should be able to get reasonable 
> fullscreen magnification that doesn't hog the system resources.  It won't 
> be quite as snappy as a magnifier that has direct access to video hardware, 
> but it should be much better than what you describe below.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
>
> Jason Grieves wrote:
>
> > Point taken,
> >
> > My low vision friend who see's 20/1700 loves open source and the idea of
> > linux.  He's also a computer administrator.  He worked at the Dept. of
> > Homeland security where they house *nix and windows boxes.  The boxes they
> > had just didn't work very well with the gnome magnifier.  He came to me 
> > and
> > we worked with gnopernicus for a long time, trying to get it working 
> > better
> > and even full screen support.  Problem is its just not usable in a work
> > environment that he is used with ZoomText.  He's fast as anything with
> > ZoomText, and watching the system lag and get stuck behind the magnifier 
> > and
> > widgets getting stuck with magnifier and keyboard focus not sticking with
> > him was hard.  He just had to ask his admins to be put to work on the
> > Windows boxes.
> >
> > Accessibility is coming its just taking its time.  I appreciate all the
> > support and coders who are working hard to bring it around.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org
> > [mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Sébastien
> > Hinderer
> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:35 PM
> > To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired
> >
> > Hi Sun folks & other listers.
> >
> > Bill Haneman :
> >
> >
> > > Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > They say "open source is not accessible", which is wrong, but what is
> > > > true is "open source is not yet really accessible".
> > > I do not agree with this assessment.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Hey Bill. Just for an experience, please do the followingthings :
> >
> > 1. Switch off your computer.
> > 2. Close your eyes and do something so that you can't see anything.
> > Are you really blind, now ? Ok, so:
> > 3. Switch on your computer, choose any graphical mailer you like,
> > and try to reply to this mail _without_ opening your eyes.
> > Just use a speech system, or a braille one, if you have one you know
> > well enough.
> >
> > Now... I'm waiting for your blindly sent reply.
> >
> > Sébastien.
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