[NBLUG/talk] Electronic format to audio

Scott Doty scott at corp.sonic.net
Mon Jul 31 18:16:06 PDT 2006


On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:34:56PM -0700, Ron Wickersham wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Scott Doty wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what I did to fix it, but I fixed it.  Seemed that either
> > removing some of those %gconf files nuked the setting -- but it might also
> > be uninstalling and re-installing control-center...
> 
> wow, didn't expect accessability to be so brittle.
> 
> this is a big issue for using Linux in government, so disabled employees
> can use the same computer as someone else.   don't have any idea what
> the issue was in your case Scott, since it functioned without a hitch
> in the config i reported.   so for wider acceptance of the Linux Desktop
> in gov't this issue can't blow up like it did for you.    unfortunately
> google for [gnome accessibility crashes] yields over 200,000 links.

ouch.

In my case, I'm using AfterStep 2.2.2 for my window manager -- that might be
less ideal than using gnome-wm.

 -Scott



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