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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo accessibility re i'm blind,
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:15:47
Message-Id: 20200422171531.m3ywnx3jjvljnhd6@matica
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, by Ashley Dixon
1 On 2020-04-22 13:28, Ashley Dixon wrote:
2
3 > This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as it
4 > is generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3].
5
6 I don't know about that. Mouse Keys was broken for at least 2 Fedora
7 releases (it would do the moves but not the clicks) and my bug about
8 that was handled in the typical GNOME/Fedora fashion, ie. ignored until
9 they could close it with reference to the next version.
10
11 > lot of the more niche W.M.s (such as i3) require an incredible amount
12 > of tinkering (and often changes to the code-base) to introduce any
13 > sort of considering for accessibility.
14
15 Maybe wrt visual handicaps you are right, but wrt keyboard access to
16 everything that "normal" users do with the mouse, I violently disagree.
17 I use bspwm now and it is the _very best_ interface I ever had, freeing
18 me from the authoritarian rodent for hours at a time.
19
20 --
21 Ian

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo accessibility re i'm blind, Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk>