Comment 3 for bug 121525

This is also reported in bug #146918 as part of a bigger bug report generally about the usability of the Sessions preferences. I have a couple of comments on this particular problem there.

I would respectfully suggest that the priority of this bug should perhaps be raised, seeing as clear, understandable, unambiguous, short, jargon-free labels would be especially important for users who actually require assistance.

Is the Sessions preference really necessary? Concretely, I think it's problematic and confusing to have two places where you can turn off assistive technologies. If you uncheck this thingy in the Sessions preference, will the assistive technology requested by the user in the AT prefs fail to run?

I'm not a native speaker, so I might be out on a limb here, but to me, "Assistive Technology" is not a very transparent term, either. If the pref is still needed, could the label be made even clearer with something like

  [x] Visual Assistance
      Start the preferred Assistive Technology (screen reader, magnifier, etc)

Note the addition of "Assistance" to the short headline. That alone might even be enough of a clarification that the parenthesis in the extended description might not be necessary.