Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
15/04/2013 17:42, Nico Williams: On Monday, April 15, 2013, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: 15/04/2013 13:54, William Adams: I guess the best solution would be for QT to become friendly to screen readers, but that's out-of-scope. Actually, the WorkArea is completely curt

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-15 Thread Nico Williams
On Monday, April 15, 2013, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 15/04/2013 13:54, William Adams: > >> I guess the best solution would be for QT to become friendly to screen >> readers, but that's out-of-scope. >> > > Actually, the WorkArea is completely curtom, not under the control of Qt. > So we would

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
15/04/2013 13:54, William Adams: I guess the best solution would be for QT to become friendly to screen readers, but that's out-of-scope. Actually, the WorkArea is completely curtom, not under the control of Qt. So we would have to implement everything by ourselves. JMarc

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-15 Thread William Adams
On Apr 14, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > There's nothing in the LyX GUI that makes it inherently less accessible than, > say, Microsoft's Word. The main problem with adding accessibility is in > using an API that keeps LyX portable. There's lots of little details that > need to be

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-14 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > Actually, I believe that a dedicated LaTeX editor (TeXworks, TeXmaker, > ...) > > is better suited for generating of LaTeX documents for blind people. > > Offtopic, but I wonder - what blind people do with ultracrypti

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > Actually, I believe that a dedicated LaTeX editor (TeXworks, TeXmaker, ...) > is better suited for generating of LaTeX documents for blind people. Offtopic, but I wonder - what blind people do with ultracryptic error messages from latex? It can be very tricky to find the ca

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-14 Thread Nico Williams
On Sunday, April 14, 2013, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2013-04-13, Fernando Botelho wrote: > > I consider TeX and LaTeX, a potentially extremely useful technology for > > the blind, because it can allow wonderful formatting even for someone > > who is blind. LYX, or the idea of accessing the power o

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-14 Thread Cyrille Artho
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2013-04-13, Fernando Botelho wrote: ... I consider TeX and LaTeX, a potentially extremely useful technology for the blind, because it can allow wonderful formatting even for someone who is blind. LYX, or the idea of accessing the power of LaTeX without having to learn

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2013-04-13, Fernando Botelho wrote: ... > I consider TeX and LaTeX, a potentially extremely useful technology for > the blind, because it can allow wonderful formatting even for someone > who is blind. LYX, or the idea of accessing the power of LaTeX without > having to learn all the tags,

Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-13 Thread Fernando Botelho
Hi everyone, I am responsible for a project we call F123 (pronounced F 1 2 3), which seeks to improve access to education and employment for the blind in developing countries through high performance low cost software such as the Orca screen reader and Compiz Fusion eZoom screen magnification.