The accessibility of notifications would seem a significant hole in GNOME desktop accessibility that affects NWAM and all other application/system functions that use notification.
As for DDU missing driver notification, we are redesigning the window opened from this notification to be a revised form of the DDU window. DDU can be opened from both a desktop icon on the liveCD or the Applications>System>DDU menu on both the LiveCD and installed systems. So the user will be able to get to the same info manually, the same way they do on the current release. Frank Willie Walker wrote: > Calum is correct - the use of the notification area as an interactive > dialog is currently a very bad thing for accessibility. The > notification balloons are not keyboard traversable and can only be > accessed via the mouse. As such, any user who does not use the mouse > (e.g., a blind user) will not have access to these dialogs. > > There should be some other mechanism (e.g., a menu item in the > System->Administration menu) to open the same dialog that would be > opened if you clicked on the notification dialog. > > Will > > Calum Benson wrote: >> >> On 28 Aug 2009, at 00:53, Frank Ludolph wrote: >> >>> Jack, >>> >>> I have made some revisions to the GUI at >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Driver_Update/dduGUIspec/ >>> >>> The major revision addresses the "silently installed" issue raised >>> by Dave and others. In a nutshell the silent, automatic installation >>> is still performed, but a notification is posted in all cases where >>> there are missing device drivers. If the user opens the GUI panel >>> all devices missing drivers are listed and those devices that are >>> having drivers automatically installed will display "installing..." >>> in the Driver column until the installation of each driver completes. >> >> I'm coming very late to this, but as I understand it, notification >> balloons with "click this message to do X" functionality are >> currently not accessible, so with this design, screenreader users may >> not be made aware that they have missing drivers. (They can >> presumably check manually by running the DDU tool themeselves, but >> that doesn't really constitute the 'equivalent access' that we aim to >> provide wherever practical.) >> >> Cc'ing Willie Walker for any more thoughts... >> >> Cheeri, >> Calum. >> >
