Dave:
I got this answer from Adam, he asked a follow-on question: " 4. When I asked about devices, I meant screens (already using the Apple Magic Trackpad/Wacom Bamboo for simpler multi-touch testing). For instance, Canonical uses the Apple Magic Trackpad to develop uTouch, but a Dell XT2 to look at multi-touch from a UI design standpoint. Any suggestions for touch-screen devices (even at the dev/designer level, not the consumer level)? This is more for me to get on the same page as the devs/designers leading the work, no so much for this specific review - although I notice how 'big' onscreen elements have gotten, so I can't ignore the touchscreen angle entirely." What should I tell him? I don't know exactly what he's looking for. He also asked whether there's a gesture language in the pipelines, I said I didn't know.
Supporting sensible gestures is an area where the needs for touchscreen support and accessibility overlap. The iPhone "VoiceOver" accessibility feature, for example, provides an impressive touchscreen and text-to-speech solution that can be used by the blind. I should think it would be useful if GNOME supported a mechanism to associate a reasonable set of gestures with commands, much like keybindings; then this would simply makes GNOME more accessible and usable to new groups of people. I have cc:ed the gnome-accessibility-list to see if anyone in the GNOME a11y community knows of any interesting plans for GNOME 3. Brian _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
