One of the advantages of using GNU/Linux operating system is that you hardly have to restart it. I have Debian on my laptop and it’s been running for months, until last night. It crashed and froze. Anyway, that’s not the main point this post was written.
After restarting, I saw this new icon in the Gnome top panel (the third icon from the right):
Well, for the start, I don’t know what it is and I don’t think I will have a need for it either. So I wanted to remove it, but right click on this icon would do nothing. Left clicked on it would give me some setting option, but nowhere does it mention how to remove it.
Thanks to the tip from Ubutu Forum, someone has found a solution. Basically, you need to go the “Keyboard Preferences” and untick the “Accessibility features can be toggled with keyboard shortcuts“.
The following is the step by step guide:
On Debian, from the menu panel, click on System -> Preferences -> Keyboard (alternatively, you can just type gnome-keyboard-properties from the Terminal)
Then, untick or uncheck the Accessibility features can be toggled with keyboard shortcuts and click on Close button. The undesired icon shall disappear.
Credit: How to remove universal access from notification area