Calum Benson wrote: > > 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> > So how is the "click-this-message" being avoided in NWAM phase 1? On scanning the NotifyOSD it appears that the proper way would be to post a morphing alert box, which I don't think is implemented in GNOME, or the alternative, an alert box. We would want to post the alert in the foreground since bringing it up in the background, as suggested, might not get it noticed until too late (after an install).
Frank
