Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-11-01 Thread Willie Walker
I definitely like the mockups -- nice work! Regarding the mouse keys settings, one needs to take into consideration that the target users of this are people with differing physical abilities who may need finer control over the parameters. This might possibly result in more knobs and dials, but

Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

2007-11-02 Thread Willie Walker
eeds to be adjustable and what the numerical ranges should be. Will Calum Benson wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2007, at 12:45, Willie Walker wrote: > >> Anyway, my main point is to ask real users about what tasks they >> typically want to accomplish with mouse keys. Then, figure out the be

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-29 Thread Willie Walker
When I was working on X Windows accessibility at Digital in the early 1990's, I modified the popular window manager at the time (mwm?) to have an option to automatically put up scrollbars if the window was too large for the display. It seemed to work well, though I cannot remember if/how the u

Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

2007-11-30 Thread Willie Walker
Elijah Newren wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 4:47 PM, Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On a related note, enhancing metacity's window movement behavior from >> the keyboard would be really nice. If you press Alt+F7 to move a >> window, you can move it all over

Re: [Usability] Fwd: The sticky and slow keys dialogs

2009-04-01 Thread Willie Walker
Thanks for bringing this up. In my opinion, the notification area is a general source of trouble for accessibility. It seems to fundamentally assume the user can use the mouse and it has abysmal keyboard access in my experience. I hadn't realized that a transition had been made to move the

Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

2010-03-02 Thread Willie Walker
Li and I had talked about this in Ireland last April. I remember from the conversation that dynamically loading the a11y modules after an application has already started was probably OK, but that unloading them while the app was still running would cause them to crash. Li - is this still not t