Re: RFC: keyboard/mouse usage for accessibility?

[Cesar Mauri <cesar crea-si com>]

Hi Samuel,

I would add.


In use cases:

User who can only move their head => Need to have head-tracking hardware/software


In examples:

Enable Viacam [1] needs mouse event injection to drive the pointer. Additionally although not yet used, input 
stealing is needed to detect whether the user is using the traditional mouse and disable the head-tracker 
(for instance, when someone is assisting the user).

Best, Cesar

[1] http://viacam.org



El 18/3/19 a las 18:16, Samuel Thibault escribió:
> Hello,
>
> There have been some discussion about how input will be handled in
> Wayland, which is important for the availability of accessibility
> features.  Currently, a lot of them are implemented with event snooping
> and synthesis, which is frowned upon for various reasons (open door
> to key logging, efficiency, etc.), and thus it is currently not even
> available on Wayland, so we need to rethink this.  One thing we need to
> determine is the actual use case, since that's the eventual goal, and
> from there we can discuss with Wayland and gtk people on how to achieve
> them appropriately.
>
> I started to collect what I could think of on
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Accessibility/Input/
>
> Could people have a look at tell what I have missed there?
>
> Samuel