Colin Walters writes: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > You're assuming the X-based assistive technology will become at least as > > performant as the non X technology is today. I certainly don't regard > > this to be impossible. I simply note we're not there. > > I am trongly suggesting that accessibility efforts focus on X based > technology, because that is the focus of the work that goes on in the > desktop. > And, that's where much of the effort is these days. However, this doesn't remove a need for a11y in nonX consoles for the same reasons that others have raised in support of nonX consoles. People boot their machines to do a particular task--not to view a monitor or listen to a TTS engine. The monitor and the screen.reader/TTS.engine are just tools. So, while most users may be more than satisfied on the GUI, there's the geek who's job is maintaining a rack of servers. Some of those geeks happen to be persons with disabilities. I suggest there's a simple way to understand this: Wherever there's a user interface, there's a need for a11y. Clearly, that's the gui desktop, but it's also the console. One of these days we'll need to extend a11y to bios and boot loader as well. If it takes input, there's someone who needs input alternatives. If it produces output, there's someone who needs output alternatives. Janina -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
