[Desktop13.04-Topic] accessibility

[Alan Bell]

I would like the text cursor tracking zoom to be incorporated, there is 
code that works, it just needs to be incorporated properly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/727290
https://code.launchpad.net/~gloob/compiz/texttracking

I can understand dropping the themes, Unity doesn't really work with any 
non-default themes, accessible or otherwise. Why not go one step further 
and drop theme support? If themes are to come back in general it would 
be good to have some designed for low vision users in the list. 
Providing alternative GUIs for controlling some of the excellent compiz 
accessibility features would be good, show mouse is another one that is 
really good (stars that float around the mouse cursor without obscuring 
it). The OpenGL accelerated Enhanced zoom is fantastic - and actually 
makes the spread usable if you have more than about a dozen windows - 
you can zoom in and pan around, they are not all tiny thumbnails, we 
have this in, and turn it off by default (or have no key/mouse bindings 
for it) and it is one of the best features of the whole operating system!

Alan.

On 16/10/12 04:09, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I have three accessibility items.
>
> First, I'd like to drop the HighContrastInverse & LowContrast themes.
> GNOME dropped support for these two themes late this cycle and they
> can no longer be set in an unpatched gnome-control-center. The idea is
> that this one theme will be significantly better than trying to
> support three mediocre themes. I hacked in support for these themes
> for 3.6.0 in Ubuntu 12.10 but gnome-themes-standard 3.6.1 isn't
> building for me yet with the hack.
>
> The two dropped themes aren't really terribly usable anyway, and
> unless someone steps up to maintain them, it's not worth the headache
> to try to keep them building.
>
> My second item is a requested feature. It would be really great if
> Unity would support the zoom and color effects built in to GNOME 3.6.
> By setting inverse or adjusting the brightness/conast this way, all
> apps (even web pages in your web browser) will respect your color
> setting.
>
> http://bicha.net/img/gnome-zoom1.png
> http://bicha.net/img/gnome-zoom2.png
> http://bicha.net/img/gnome-zoom3.png
>
> And finally, Unity includes a mostly hidden accessibility status menu.
> It's probably a good thing it's hidden as it's almost useless at the
> moment. I filed bug http://pad.lv/1067166 requesting that a
> replacement be designed and included in 13.04.
>
> Jeremy
>


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