Beep on X11 login screen

[Elton Woo]

On October 28, 2003 01:18 pm, Mike A. Harris , <"Mike A. Harris" 
<mharris at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >> -Andy
> >
> >Having it beep by default for the visually impaired is a must IMO.
>
> Having the default mouse cursors be a one inch high mouse pointer
> that flashes bright neon colours should be the default then also,
> for elderly people who are hard of sight.  We should also set the
> default sound mixer levels to maximum, in order that auditorily
> challenged people can hear audio by default.  We should set the
> default font size of all applications to be 72 point size also,
> for accessibility.
>
> The rest of the population can very easily change mouse cursors
> to the previously standard small cursor, and turn their audio
> levels down, and decrease their font size.
>
> That makes the most sense to me anyway.

... if I may interject ... 

How about having something in the installer to "decide" if the person
installing is visually, manually, or auditorially handicapped?
*Then* anaconda would proceed and install as Mike describes above.

... otherwise, you'll simply get people griping about these "defaults"
rather than saying: "Red Hat has had the foresight to make its linux
distro easily usable by, and accessible to *all*, so I'll just turn these
options off, and revert to the "standard" interface.".

... just my simplistic view, I'm afraid ...

Elton ;-)
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