>It would be great if the Tk/Tkinter developers would be interested in
making >this GUI lib accessible.
They're not going to do it without knowing what makes accessible
accessible, and why it needs to be so. So, rather than tell the world
about how -some- blind people want to be like sighted people (we call
that independence in my world), why not go help out? It's bad, you want
a switch, and you've already said that they're using a lib that is
unaccessible. So fix the lib, and you will have fixed tons of programs
without fixing the program. That is all I ment by finding the root of
the problem, not "everyone with readers should fix their health
problems." You take my words, blow them out of perportion and at the end
of the day, you are still sitting here complaining about the lack of
accessibility, rather than doing something about it. This is awesome. We
for sure need more complainers and less people to do what the
complainers are complaining about!
On 1/24/2011 1:49 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
From: "Mark Roseman"<m...@markroseman.com>
"Littlefield, Tyler"<ty...@tysdomain.com> wrote:
Rather, I believe
those pushing accessibility should concentrate on the root cause; that
of fixing TKInter, and not forcing everyone else to use a different library.
Here, here. From my queries to some of the Tcl/Tk folks, it seems that
while the knowledge and expertise is not present in the core developer
community, they would be more than happy to help people who do have some
knowledge in this area so that Tk could be made to be more accessible.
Grand conspiracies aside, I think the development communities behind
most GUI toolkits would be very receptive to people who could help make
developing accessible applications with their toolkits feasible.
(And if/when this does get done for Tk, I promise at least to make sure
that the tutorial at http:///www.tkdocs.com covers this topic).
Mark
It would be great if the Tk/Tkinter developers would be interested in making
this GUI lib accessible.
There are no many people that know about this thing, but there are standards
like MSAA that can be followed by them if they really want to offer
accessibility.
I guess that if Tkinter would support MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) in
its Windows version, the screen readers would be able to offer support for Tk
(or it might be offered by default... I don't know).
Octavian
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Thanks,
Ty
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