Accessibility considerations

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:31:43AM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to revive this keyboard accessibility discussions started
> before here [1], more specifically about slowkeys, stickykeys and
> bouncekeys.
> 
> We can choose to add support for those either client side or server side.
> 
> The general consensus was it would better be server side (fwiw, I
> completely agree) with a mechanism for clients such as games to opt-out [2].
> 
> Implementation would be in xkbcommon.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
>  - Where do we stand with all these, has any work started on xkbcommon
> implementation? If not, any pointer where to start? (I don't know xkbcommon
> code much, so any hint might help)
> 
>  - Regarding the Wayland protocol side of things, should we come up with a
> new specific protocol (e.g. a11y-keyboard) or amend existing protocol
> (wl_keyboard or input-method)?

I'd say don't put this into wl_keyboard because what you're exposing here
isn't necessary *what* you're doing but merely the configuration of that. So
a separate protocol seems in order here.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier
> 
> [1]
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-March/027419.html
> [2]
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-March/027473.html

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