Am Mittwoch 28 November 2007 schrieb Hans Petter Jansson:
The GNOME team set up a wiki page for 11.0 ideas. One of the requests is for accessibility options to be available in the YaST installer, in particular:
* Screen magnifier - shows a magnified version of the portion of the screen you're pointing at.
* Screen reader - reads the labels and input text out loud.
* Braille output - provides tactile display of labels and input text via a special device.
In GNOME, we use Orca to accomplish this, together with the at-spi infrastructure. It is a Python app. I don't know what Qt/KDE uses, but I imagine something similar.
So I have some questions for the YaST/installer guys:
* What accessibility technologies are available in the installer today, and how are they configured?
* If we're missing accessibility functionality, how feasible would it be to implement it for 11.0?
* Given that the installer is a Qt app, what technologies could we use?
For openSUSE accessibility is not a too hot topic I would say. And taking that all your screen readers, braile output and magnifier apps would significantly increase the installation image and would be run from memory I kind of doubt that this is something that would be loved wildly. So I would suggest we leave accessibility installation to the live CD, even if that means that some options (like update) wouldn't be accesssible. BTW: Qt has an at-spi bridge, so you can use whatever apps you use under GNOME also in the installation (in theory). Greetings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org