On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 00:08 -0500, suseROCKS wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:37 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > The Thursday 2007-10-11 at 10:12 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > > > > > a11y (not ally) is geek-speak for accessibility, like i18n is geek-speak > > > for internationalization. (Hint: count the letters :) > > > > I didn't know. IMO, a11y instead of accessibility is a non accesible > > acronym, as the user with vision dificulties will probably not spot the > > "ones" - that's what happened to the OP, I think. >:-) > > > That's correct. When he said "a11y (not ally)" I still only saw "L's" > and wondered what the heck he was critiquing, then when Carlos said > "ones" I realized the difference. :-)
Please accept my apologies. I thought that saying "a11y (not ally)" would prompt you to check exactly what I'd written. If you can't see the difference even when looking carefully, are you aware of the xmag application? BTW, I agree with everybody that it's a really naff acronym. > As an example, one trick I use for finding my mouse pointer is to focus > on the upper left corner of the screen and then keep dragging my mouse > until the pointer comes into focus. Then I can follow my pointer to the > location I want to use it. As an alternative, are you aware of the xeyes application? It gives you a small window at a specific position on the screen that indicates approximately where the mouse is. You might find it helpful. IMHO, even better could be one or two simple pointers in the corners of the screen. If such a thing doesn't exist, it could easily be made. > Years ago, back in Windows 3.1 days, there was an add-on that allowed me > to quickly move my mouse pointer to the center of the screen by clicking > a set of hotkeys. Never saw it again after Win95 came around. :-( > Would be great if someone could create something like that again for > Suse. :-) I don't know whether it is possible to use a program to move the mouse in X11. I haven't found any API yet. Does anybody happen to know? If the facility exists, it will be easy to write an application to do this. It's probably worth checking on an accessibility-related list like the gnome one to see if it already exists. > Websites are also causing problems these days. Seems like everyone > wants to go for the cool factor, which today is white background with > grey fonts. More and more visually-impaired people are complaining > about this. But I'm going off-point here a bit. It needs the governments to actually prosecute some prominent site for violating the accessibility laws! Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
