When keyboard accessibility features are turned on, gnome-settings- daemon watches for the user pressing Ctrl multiple times or holding down Shift for 8 seconds. When this happens, it presents a notification bubble asking the user if he wishes to activate the corresponding feature (Sticky Keys and Slow Keys).

Jaunty's new notify-osd falls back to popping up a dialog box. (One with the distinct aura of not wanting to be there). In any notification system without that kind of fallback, it would be impossible to enable sticky or slow keys since the system blindly relies on an action button being pressed.

Specifically, this problem lies in gnome-settings- daemon/ plugins/ a11y-keyboard, with ax_slowkeys_ warning_ post and ax_stickykeys_ warning_ post. The plugin should instead use custom alert boxes. Mockups at <https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/NotifyOSD# keyboard- accessibility>

I am posting this first to Launchpad instead of upstream, because I think Ubuntu at the moment is more committed to the issue.