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releng:4.10:roadmap:accessibility [2011/09/14 23:24] – [A11y Activation over D-Bus] jannisreleng:4.10:roadmap:accessibility [2011/09/14 23:26] – [A11y Activation over D-Bus] jannis
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 ===== A11y Activation over D-Bus ===== ===== A11y Activation over D-Bus =====
  
-There has been a proposal to have desktop environments implement a D-Bus API that accessibility tools like Orca can use to check and turn on/off accessibility. We already have a "Enable assistive technologies" check button in the accessibility settings dialog. However, blind users will have a hard time to find this button when a11y is disabled. If we implement the D-Bus API in xfsettingsd, enabling a11y would be as simple as launching Orca.+There has been a proposal to have desktop environments implement a D-Bus API that accessibility tools like Orca can use to check and turn on/off accessibility. We already have a "Enable assistive technologies" check button in the accessibility settings dialog. However, blind users will have a hard time finding this button when a11y is disabled. If we implement the D-Bus API in xfsettingsd, enabling a11y would be as simple as launching Orca -- and log out + log in afterwards.
  
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