[Bug 768583] Re: UIFe: Onboard (on-screen keyboard) does not use Ubuntu interface font or colours

[Francesco Fumanti]

In reply to comment #1 and the references to Caribou (It is a bit of
topic, but since people of the a11y team are watching this thread, I
think it is worth mentioning it):

Onboard does not need at-spi in order to work; but I think Caribou
depends on it. I don't know whether at-spi2 solves the problems of at-
spi (for example, opening /usr/bin in nautilus takes very long; under
some circumstances there was something like a lock (I don't remember the
details from the top of my head),...), but I think for a simple onscreen
keyboard like onboard, not depending on at-spi is a good thing.

In fact, I wonder whether we should not consider two categories of
onscreen keyboard users:

- Those that can control the pointer that only requires a simple
onscreen keyboard like onboard.

- Those that access the computer with switches and that probably need a
more sophisticated onscreen keyboard like gok (or I suppose Caribou,
once it is completed), that is able to grab elements of the active
application and duplicate them in the gok interface to make them
accessible to the user.

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Title:
  UIFe: Onboard (on-screen keyboard) does not use Ubuntu interface font
  or colours