Important info re Accessibility and document formats inMassachusetts

[Jason Grieves]

Hello,

I downloaded and tested Solaris from Sun.  Their desktop is accessible with
gnopernicus and magnifier.

They do not activate java accessibility or full screen magnification or
firefox accessibility on the fly.  All disability themes are available, but
some are disabled.  You can install their "accessibility suite' at install,
but it is not "on" by default.  There are a few other useful tools which I
have trouble remembering.  Mostly screen reading stuff.

I also enjoyed the install of Solaris.  I was able to increase the font
size, as they did everything through a terminal.  I pumped up the fonts to
the max, and as a low vision user this is exactly what I needed.  Not sure
if they are planning to do an accessible install or not.

You can throw all the tools on all you want, but if its not usable and
simply just "doesn't work" it becomes extremely difficult for disabled users
to use.  For example magnification.  Split screen magnification is imo not a
workable environment.  Try logging out with split screen magnification on.
The window sticks in the center, cutting half of it off.  It is also
unmovable.  I would have thought this would have gone against the Gnome HIG.
Anyone think this is bug worthy?  Full screen magnification works, and I was
actually able to get work done in it.  Much more work than split screen
magnification.  However it took quite a while to get it rolling, as
documentation is old and is impossible for someone who is very low vision to
setup.  

There is no distribution that makes everything easy.  

Jason Grieves

Jason Grieves

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Gary
Cramblitt
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:25 PM
To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Important info re Accessibility and document formats
inMassachusetts

I wish to make two points about this.

    1.  The requirement to make an ubuntu live cd with working accessibility

is  mine.  Nobody at the meeting I attended in Massachusetts actually  
requested this.  Don't want anyone to get the wrong impression. :)

    2.  Peter Korn gave a demonstration with Gnome and I believe he was 
running it under Solaris.  Does anyone know if the freely available Solaris 
distro has Gnome and whether the accessibility is working correctly?  If so,

there would be much less urgency to produce an ubuntu cd with working 
accessibility.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php

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