What are the accessibility features provided with the Solaris 9 OS?
There are several core features in the Solaris platform that support the needs of people with visual and mobility impairments. • Sun’s current desktop (CDE) supports people with mobility limitations with a complete set of options for control of the mouse and keyboard (via AccessX). • Users with visual and hearing impairments also have basic control of system functions. Users with low vision can use the dtstyle application to increase font size or change colors on the CDE desktop to make text easier to read. • For the hearing impaired, new platform support has been added in Solaris 9 for users to configure system tones with variable pitch duration and loudness. • To the extent that a CDE/Motif application has a corresponding command-line interface (CLI), assistive technologies (such as screen readers for blind users) can be used to access all textual-based content of the command line interface and provide voice output to the visually impaired. A screen reader (such as Emacspeak) can acc
