Hi. What is super? I tried alt-f1, but there is nothing on the applications menu reached by that. If I hit control-tab twice, I get to a top panel and it says menu bar along with some other icons. Is this all by design?
Dylan McCall <dylanmcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's a shame about the accident. I'm glad that GNOME and Debian have > worked for you until now. > > The new menus _should_ be accessible. May you please explain what > about them isn't working out? I'm sure that would help to improve the > implementation. As it is, adding a toggle between the two menu layouts > is no simple task: with this menu redesign, the idea of grouping menu > items under things like "Edit" and "View" is going to drift away, so > even if the bits were in place it would be quite difficult to change > it back (especially dynamically). > > If I was to guess, the biggest problem for keyboard-accessibility is > that the menus don't open with F10, so you have to reach them with > Tab. Is that the gist of the problem? That might be something to > mandate in the HIG (and maybe add at the toolkit level), because it > _is_ quite surprising. Google Chrome, for example, is keyboard > accessible: its wrench menu can be opened with the usual mnemonics > (Alt+F or Alt+E). They forgot that F10 is the _real_ common > menu-opening shortcut, but they did try :) > > If you haven't already found it, the keyboard shortcut to get the > application menu (beside Activities at the top left of the screen) is > Super+F10. You can also use the left and right arrow keys to get > anywhere else on the top bar. Do you find that one works okay? > > Thanks, > > Dylan > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:29 AM, surma <su...@hot.ee> wrote: > > > > I’ve been using debian since 27 March of 1996, before gnome everything was > > quite crappy, but I started using gnome 11 June 2000, and linux turned > > easy. Then (2004/2005) I had a terrible car accident, I got rammed, then I > > spent 6 months in coma, which messed up my hands, so I can’t use mouse, > > that’s why I prefer keyboard. Maake a place under gconf-editor where you > > can choose the style of menu, so people can use either classic or modern > > style. > > > > That’s why I can’t use mouse. > > http://www.hot.ee/surma/Surma_24.12.05.jpg > > I built this car myself … and had an accident with it. > > > > This is what was left of my car. > > http://www.hot.ee/surma/katki.jpg > > Tanel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
