LiveCDsettings

Revision 7 as of 2006-02-22 20:17:25

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These are the default settings we will use for the ["UbuntuExpress/Accessibility"] feature. Please help flesh out the configuration file settings.

1: Lesser Visual Impairment

STATUS: Features complete, conf setting unknown

  • Features: High visibility theme

  • Description of settings: Enable a high visibility theme with large fonts - use black text on white background as default. Also use large cursors.

  • Packages affected: gnome-accessibility-themes big-cusor

  • Reported bugs:

  • Configuration details (files and changes):

2: Moderate Visual Impairment

STATUS: ?

  • Features: Gnopernicus with magnifier

  • Description of settings: Launch Gnopernicus at boot with 2x split-screen magnification (question: are the default settings reasonable?)

  • Packages affected: gnopernicus at-spi

  • Reported bugs:

  • Configuration details (files and changes):

3: Blindness

STATUS: ?

  • Features: Gnopernicus with screenreader

  • Description of settings: Start Gnopernicus with the flite reader (question: is flite tested and working?)

  • Packages affected: gnopernicus at-spi gnome-speech speech-dispatcher flite

  • Reported bugs:

  • Configuration details (files and changes):

4: Minor Motor Difficulties

STATUS: Features complete, conf setting unknown

  • Features: Enable basic keyboard and mouse AT features

  • Description of settings: Enable StikyKeys (+beep when modifier is pressed), RepeatKeys (700ms and the repeat rate to 10ms) and MouseKeys. Do not enable Slow Keys or BounceKeys (the RepeatKeys settings largely cover those needs).

  • Packages affected: no special packages

  • Reported bugs:

  • Configuration details (files and changes):

5: Motor Difficulties - pointing devices

STATUS: Features complete, conf setting unknown

  • Features: Gnome On-screen Keyboard in pointing mode

  • Description of settings: Start GOK in normal mouse-pointer mode. please: can we get rid of that warning box in this case? -- In this case we are assuming that the user can click on any part of the screen, so we don't worry about pointer grabs.

  • Packages affected: gok at-spi

  • Reported bugs:

  • Configuration details (files and changes):

6: Motor Difficulties - switching devices

STATUS: deferred