Comment 2 for bug 781529

I appreciate all of the work which developers are putting into Unity, so I do not say this with any ill intent, however I believe that this issue is quite important.

I am a partially blind user, and I COMPLETELY rely on screen magnifier technologies in order to access my computer system. If the eZoom plugin in compiz is unable to zoom in on the Unity objects (the top bar and the sidebar), then Unity is unusable to me.

From my understanding, Unity2D has replaced Classic Gnome as the other desktop which comes packaged with Ubuntu. It is also my understanding that Unity2D does not use Compiz, and that there is no screen magnifier available for it. To a partially blind user such as myself, this means that the operating system is, for the most part, unusable.

I just have a simple request: that the importance of this issue would be reconsidered. This was a bug in Ubuntu 11.04, and it seems also in Ubuntu 11.10. I had hoped there would have been some change in the past months so that I could come back to Ubuntu. I am not trying to whine or to complain, but I do just ask that the importance of this bug would be carefully reconsidered.

I use Ubuntu as my primary operating system because I could not afford commercial screen magnifiers for Windows (which tend to cost $500 - $700 or so). When I found that Compiz worked even better in Ubuntu, I completely switched over based upon my reliance on the Compiz eZoom plugin. Thsi complete reliance upon CompizeZoom is why this issue is so important to me.

I appreciate your time in reading this, and thank you for all of the hard work.