Accessibility considerations

Bryce Harrington bryce at osg.samsung.com
Fri Mar 11 22:07:55 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:46:21PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:43:13PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > Anyway, I'd like to hear people's thoughts about this topic.
> 
> fwiw, I fully agree that this need to be implemented on the compositor side.
> Client-side first is a nice principle for things that are client-specific
> but I see accessibility as a feature of the user, not of the software. Thus
> it falls into the same category as other user-specific features like tapping
> that are already implemented in the compositor (or even hidden inside
> libinput).

Along this line of thinking, I notice that weston-simple-im.c implements
compose sequences, but should compose key be client-side or might it fit
in with something like this on the compositor side?  I'm a bit confused
how compose key support is intended to work in Weston.

Bryce


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