On 22 Sep 2009, at 18:04, Frank Ludolph wrote: > 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.
It is, so we've had to try and avoid the 'click this message' type of balloons in the NWAM Phase 1 GUI design, and just use them for strictly informational purposes[1]. (Or at least, avoid them as the only way of initiating some action, which was a trap we fell into with Phase 0.5). Cheeri, Calum. [1] If the current Ubuntu notification work goes upstream, this is the only kind of notification messages that will be allowed in future anyway, which should hopefully simplify the accessibility picture somewhat: <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD> -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
