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On 8/28/2007, "Peter Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >to highlight regions of the screen, regions of a window, in >order to allow a user who can only press a single button/switch to >successively narrow down which part of the UI they want to interact >with. [snip] >to better highlight the text caret or focused >control (see ZoomText 8 and 9 on Windows for some nice examples of >this). I'm *very* interested in this. In win32 you can draw on the screen bitmap but in distributed X such a system service is required. I've not yet investigated this area in earnest but it definitely be an important part of my work on Jambu alternative input. It is also going to be highly useful for the many users who use reading support as you say. It effectively allows many sources to be treated as an e-book with high-lighting and if you add TTS to read the highlighted word is even more effective. People may want a combination of switch, mag, tts and highlighting so there's value in shared services or getting ATs to interact in useful ways. My thoughts so far are that in the absence of such a service as is being described the options are: 1) select UI item via AT/SPI - that's application specific and needs AT/SPI support in the application 2) Composite or Beryl etc- not sure how general that is - currently needs to be enabled and enough processing power. 3) window manager extension - very limited functionality 4) anything else? So a general system/desktop service that can be controlled by ATs appears the most flexible and applicable solution. The magnifier is in the right arena, perhaps renamed to indicated more general display enhancement services? Steve Lee fullmeasure.co.uk _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
