GNOME Accessibility on by default, and Firefox

["T.V Raman" <raman google com>]

I think this is a good idea.

Performance matters to everyone, and the last thing you want as
someone who depends on accessibility is for the rest of the world
to perceive accessibility as something that slows things down for
everyone else. 

David Bolter writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > Firefox (and other apps) provides accessibility support conditionally.
 > This means that on GNOME it always runs a little slower for everyone,
 > and eats up extra resources. I wonder if we could have GNOME
 > accessibility turned on, but a separate setting that Firefox can check
 > on GNOME to tell it if the at-spi is actually being used by a client?
 > 
 > This matters because people outside our circle make choices about
 > browsers based on performance... and I think we want the most accessible
 > one to win ;)
 > 
 > cheers,
 > David
 > _______________________________________________
 > dev-accessibility mailing list
 > dev-accessibility lists mozilla org
 > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-accessibility

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