After a few more bugfix commits (thanks Tollef!) the Live CD access
stuff seems to mostly work.
Here is what works well:
* High contrast mode starts up with the right theme
* Magnification mode starts up
* In screen reader mode gnopernicus comes up talking (yay!)
* In minor-motor mode the sticky keys and mouse keys work well
Things that we might be able to improve for dapper:
* The high contrast mode should also use large fonts
* The position of the magnifier is sub-optimal (but this has proven
tricky to track down)
* GOK crashes from the live CD (but works on my desktop) -- I'll file a
bug.
Things that look out of reach for dapper:
* Ubiquity+gnopernicus does not produce speech output -- I'd love it of
we found a magic solution to this, but I fear it will need some major
work. Now that we know the issues we should be able to make a tidy
solution for Edgy.
* Many applications don't speak AT-SPI as well as they should,
including Firefox and OpenOffice. I want to focus more on this in the
next cycle. Perhaps we can form a team to test and report these problems
upstream.
On the whole though, I've very pleased that we have taken some
significant steps toward universal access in Dapper!
- Henrik
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