[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: windows apps and liblouisxml

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 05:08:11 -0500

I have been working with Laura Eaves on developing a Windows GUI in C#. 
It may be integrated into EdSharp. As a bonus, we will get C# bindings. 
A good Windows GUI is crucial if liblouisxml is to be widely accepted. 

Let's make liblouisxml the standard braille transcription package!

John

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:44:56AM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> James Teh <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On 25/05/2010 6:46 PM, Christian Egli wrote:
> >> I think Dots could fit your bill here. Dots is a braille translation
> >> application written in Python and licensed under GPL.
> > One issue with Dots is that i think it uses GTK, which is not
> > accessible to screen readers in Windows.
> 
> Oh, I didn't realize that. That's bad news. I thought gtk had some
> accessibility support (atk). Where is the problem? Are the gtk people
> aware of this?
> 
> Thanks
> Christian
> -- 
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Z??rich, Switzerland
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com

-- 
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities

For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com

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