Functional Spec

authored by Andy, initial elements added 2007 Jan 25 13:30 by cmpalmer

General Goals

• improve the accessibility and usability of specific standard GNOME 2.16 desktop utilities through authoring of LSR scripts that overcome the problematic interfaces of those utilities.
• To extend and contribute to the Open Source LSR project.

General Design Principles

• pre-requisites
  • LSR 0.4.0 or higher
  • GNOME 2.16 desktop
  • Festival speech engine or IBM Text-to-Speech engine
  • at-poke
  • Python

Desktop Utilities Included

• essential apps
  • gcalctool
  • gedit (spellcheck dialog)
  • gnome-keybinding-properties
  • beagle
  • keyboard shortcuts dialog
  • gnome-screensaver prefs dialog
• hopeful
  • evolution contacts dialog

User Types

• Users with visual impairments
• Users with visual and motor impairments

User Goals

• Access to GNOME desktop as efficiently as people with non-visual impairments