illiteracy an accessibility challenge

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

It can be as hard or easy as you make it.  Why do you think MacDonalds has 
all those pictures on the machines for taking orders?   Those pictures 
with a little training get past the illiteray barrier.  That's a proven 
model.  Most types of businesses had their own representative pictorial 
signs before education beame widely available due to the public school 
systems.  So what does this properly mean for gnome?  Pictures appear on a 
screen.  If a user does nothing for a while, the screen saver doesn't come 
on, a voice comes on and announces possible choices as each picture is 
highlighted.  If gnome can detet touch, it may be able to tell the user 
what picture they're touching.  If the user does a certain gesture to 
activate that picture, a speech dialog might announce the changes.  People 
in China who knew only pictorial writing were literate too in their own 
way.