Re: Accessibility issues of GUI interface in Linux

[Andor Demarteau <goniners warande1130 warande uu nl>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:27:29AM -0700, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Hello, listers!
> Has there been any talk about accessibility issues of GUI interfaces under
> Linux? I have just looked through Gnome, Enlightenment, KDE and X-Windows in
> general with my sighted friends, and we couldn't find any similar
> accessibility features to what MS-Windows provides.
> For instance,
> One cannot access an object by pressing a highlighted letter;
> Enter key does not work in many cases, one needs to just click on objects;
> Scrolling is completely unfriendly, that is, just a small arrow is
> available, arrow keys are unusable;
> Doubleclick activation is not cross-applicable;
> Some objects are too small to see for low vision person.
hi,
I think it all depends under x which windowmanager you are using.
I don't know exectly which one is better or which one will get rid of the problems you note above.
What I do know is that x is not just like windows with one kind of look and touch to it. There are at least 10 or 20 windowmanagers out there which all are different from each other.
And also variating from simple low-diskusage once to advanced system.
If neede there also could be an windowmanager written specially for better access.
greatings,
Andor