Re: Gnome and support for the visually impaired

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Dave,

Many/most Braille users have their hearing, and so your locktones application, 
or something like it, makes a lot of sense.  But for deaf-blind, or for people 
who otherwise want an audio-free environment, do you think some sort of 
dot-pattern keyboard status indicator on the Braille display would be useful? 
 Though I've heard it is going out of style, many Braille displays dedicated 
several cells a the far right edge for status indication.  We already have a 
GNOME Keyboard Accessibility status applet GUI.  Would a Braille equivalent of 
that be interesting?


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Willie Walker on 2005/09/30 at 13:11 -0400]
>
>
> > Orca attempts to address this problem by using a different
> > "voice" when speaking uppercase characters/words.  The
> > default is to merely raise the pitch of the normal voice,
> > but it is configurable to be any voice from any synthesizer
> > one might want to use.
>
>
> That'd certainly work for those using speech. Even when using braille, however,
> it's still nice to know the state of the lock(s) before typing. Consider those
> applications which perform major functions in response to single key presses,
> and wherein the function performed by a letter key is case sensitive.