Bug 224473 - Please add an accessibility menu option to KDM
Summary: Please add an accessibility menu option to KDM
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kdm
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Unspecified
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdm bugs tracker
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Reported: 2010-01-27 15:55 UTC by Dotan Cohen
Modified: 2010-01-28 12:56 UTC (History)
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Description Dotan Cohen 2010-01-27 15:55:59 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Please add an option to KDM which when selected will enable certain accessibility features in the desktop, such as a high-contrast theme and the cursor magnifier enabled. It would even be conceivable that as soon as this button is pressed, KDM itself would assume an accessible configuration.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-01-27 16:55:43 UTC
this makes no sense, as "accessible" means something different for everyone.

and having "half" of systemsettings in kdm has been rejected before.
Comment 2 Will Stephenson 2010-01-27 21:53:28 UTC
It's in the Vista DM and GDM - indicating that there is a subset of a11y features that make the desktop accessible to a lot more users.
Comment 3 Bob Stia 2010-01-28 04:29:05 UTC
There are many accessability issues (mainly sight related) that you cannot even fathom until you have suffered them Please consider those who are sight impaired like myself. This should not be a big deal for you to so. It is a big deal for me and people like me.

Bob S
Comment 4 Tero Pesonen 2010-01-28 08:40:03 UTC
> and having "half" of systemsettings in kdm has been rejected before.

This has nothing to do with feature bloat. This would allow a number of users, myself included, to actually start using the desktop -- to log in -- on a terminal not preconfigured by the user themselves.
Comment 5 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-01-28 08:53:14 UTC
and how exactly are you going to even find that checkbox/whatever if you are unable to log in (a rather trivial process which basically needs no visual feedback at all)?
Comment 6 Tero Pesonen 2010-01-28 09:05:23 UTC
Obviously, having the UI load with a basic high-contrast scheme, for example, allows more comfortable or possible-at-all basic desktop use or, for longer tasks, allows one to set the configurations correctly (in case not a public terminal). I have been struggling with these sort of thing for years, so believe me, I know what I am talking about.
Comment 7 Felix Miata 2010-01-28 10:30:21 UTC
I wonder if KDM is the right product for what the reporter's requested?
Comment 8 Dotan Cohen 2010-01-28 12:56:07 UTC
> and how exactly are you going to even find that checkbox/whatever
> if you are unable to log in

Disabilities generally increase the difficulty of performing tasks in an exponential fashion, so clicking a single checkbox in KDM would be possible even if difficult.