[Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Lubuntu and Accessibility

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:44:10AM EST, PCMan wrote:
> For the panel, Brian Cameron has a good idea. He suggested that we can
> use a different UI for orca.
> That means, replacing all buttons in the bar with standard GtkButton
> widget rather than some hand-made ones.
> This looks ugly, but will have much better usability. If
> "accessibility mode" is on, we use standard GtkButton with text label
> rather than current ones with images on them.

An alternative is to make the existing buttons accessible, by adding calls to atk to properly identify and label the buttons. This reduces the amount of divergence and makes it easier for you to maintain, as you don't have to maintain a set of buttons using 2 different ways of rendering etc.

Luke