Re: Accessibility issues of GUI interface in Linux

[Ryan Shugart <ryan lothlorien nfbcal org>]

Granted I'm very new at this, but no matter what you did to make a 
Windowmannager accessable wouldn't you still have the applications 
themselves to deal with?  
Ryan


On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Andor Demarteau wrote:

> 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
> 
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