Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility related questions

Mgr. Janusz Chmiel chmeljanusz at seznam.cz
Fri Oct 7 09:24:26 UTC 2011


Dear users and developers,
Would some body try to answer me the following accessibility related 
question?
In The future official Ubuntu 11.10 release, how will be solved The 
navigation in side The installed applications menu?
In The Ubuntu 11.04 and in The earlyer releases, user could press ALT+F1 
and special applications menu have been recalled.
Will be The similar keyboardshortcut awailable also in The official 
Ubuntu 11.10? Or it will be awailable in Vinux?
I would like to thank MR Yelavich for his exhaustic, very complex and 
intensive programmers work. I would like to thank him very much, that he 
want to develope Vinux build scripts, so Vinux will be officially 
builded so no utilities such as Remastersys will be necessary to use.
Very well done. I would like to thank MR Yelavich and Canonical LTD for 
bringing newest software and kernel drivers to every Ubuntu release.
I know, that some of visually impaired users may be sad, that new 
features are causing accessibility issues. But i think, that it is very 
positive, that visually impaired users can be engaged to The development 
of new user interfaces such as Unity. And new display managers such as 
LighttGDM.
Very important positive fact is, that there is even ammazing 
proggrammer, who is bringing QT support for us by developing The bridge 
between At-spi and QT libraryes.
My question is:
How i can simply access The run application dialog window in The latest 
Ubuntu daily build to run terminal and to try some QT based applications 
atleast by using live CD mode?
I can not very probably run The terminal by typing
gnome-terminal
If there is no chance to run terminal like in earlyer Gnome releases, 
and if run applications dialog is not accessible by using keyboard 
shortcut, i AM suggesting to atleast support this hodkey.
Or next idea is adding all applications links to The desktop, because 
desktop is accessible by Orca.
So If applications menu is not accessible, I AM suggesting You to add 
applications linksto The desktop.
Because it will be very probably much more easyer than to modifi Unity 
or Gnome-shell.
What do You think about my idea?
New accessibility algorithms can be awailable by Ubuntu updates.
Fortunately, Orca and At-spi is stable and also speech-dispatcher and 
Pulseaudio are working excellently, so there is nothink annoing for 
visually impaired users.
I think, that it will be good idea to solve some complex accessibility 
related issues to make Vinux distro, which will combine new and older 
modules to provide best awailable accessibility.
So i AM recommending YOu to add applications shortcuts list to The 
desktop in The live CD mode, when user is activating Orca profile. So 
sighted users will not be surprised by The new Canonical LTD approach.
What do You think about it?
Also Run application link could be awailable in The desktop.
If there is no choice to make The keyboard shortcut for this task




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