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