Assistive Technologies Preferences

Use the Assistive Technologies preference tool to enable assistive technologies in the GNOME Desktop. You can also use the Assistive Technology preference tool to open other preference tools which contain preferences related to assistive technologies.

Preferred Applications lets you specify assistive technology applications to start automatically when you log in. See Section 8.1.3 ― Preferred Applications
Keyboard Accessibility lets you configure keyboard accessibility features such as sticky keys, slow keys or bounce keys. See Section 8.4.1.4 ― Keyboard Accessibility Preferences
Mouse Accessibility lets you configure mouse accessibility features such as dwell clicking. See Section 8.4.2.2 ― Mouse Accessibility Preferences

Table 8-1 lists the assistive technology preferences that you can modify.

Table 8-1 Assistive Technology Preferences

Dialog Element	Description
Enable assistive technologies	Select this option to enable assistive technologies in the GNOME Desktop. Note that for technical reasons, you have to log in again after enabling this option for it to be fully effective.

Dialog Element

Description

Enable assistive technologies

Select this option to enable assistive technologies in the GNOME Desktop.

Note that for technical reasons, you have to log in again after enabling this option for it to be fully effective.

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Assistive Technologies Preferences