Changing subject. As Matthias said, this is somewhat off-topic, as the original thread was about start to propose features.
On 10/06/2011 01:50 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Someone said, "well, if it is my house, I should be able to chose", the >> reason that rationale doesn't work is because the GNOME Shell experience >> should be designed to be inclusive, so this is really closer to an office >> building or an apartment building instead of a private house. > The flaw in your logic starts beyond the front door. Clearly the login > process should be accessible, and the install and setup so that a user > can always get their system set up. > > However at the point beyond login that ceases to be true. It's necessary > that the accessibility starts available somewhere (or can be enabled > accessibly in the login) but beyond that point the user should be able to > disable it for their account. Things are not as easy as that. In some cases accessibility is not just about disable/enable something, and some disabled users doesn't need a specific feature always. For example, although some users are used to use magnification, they don't need it to login. Related to that, Joseph Scheuhammer is working on the UI to configure the zoom, and also provide brightness/contrast effects, with a high control on his configuration, as not all the users needs the same value (he is planning to propose that as a 3.4 feature btw). Users could use a contrast configuration, but then decide to change it. Having the menu access allow users to access that part easily. > > If someone needs accessibility to use my account then probably I've been > hacked by someone disabled. Granted it could be I have become disabled > but that hopefully doesn't happen to people suddenely very often. Sure > it'll happen slowly by age to many of us. Also if you can force > accessibility on as a login choice that is still ok. As I said, IMHO, we can't force the user to configure all the aspects of accessibility at login time. If not, he will require to logout if he want to change something. And this is something that we can say about any other session configuration. As you mention "it'll happen slowly by age", I will give another example. Magnifiers are heavily used by old people. But this is not usually a "all or nothing" situation. They can interact with the computer, but if they start to feel tired, they can decide to start the magnifier. > > It seems to me you can meet both sets of requirements quite easily, and > that an always accessible login with the ability to force a session to be > accessible covers the corner cases too. I made some examples that I guess you include on "the corner cases". IMHO, is making things more complex. In my personal opinion, a11y menu access should be there by default, but I don't see any problem to provide a way to hide it. BR -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list