RE: Making TK accessible?
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:03:13 -0500
Then use gtk accessibility as an example search for gtk accessibility frame
work
Ken
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield,
Tyler
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:50 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Making TK accessible?
Python still ships with TKInter. I don't want to add speech to it,
because that kind of kills the point of using it with a reader, but I
would like to use something to allow Jaws, Wineyes and NVDA to access it
with no problems.
On 1/28/2011 11:23 AM, Ken Perry wrote:
> Um are there still people using TK? I would go with gtk on any project
over
> tk. If you have to make it accessible though you will need to make the
gui
> accessible and that means replacing anything that has a UI component with
> something that has either hooks or talks on its own. You might want to
look
> at the gtk++ accessibility frame work for examples of what they had to do
to
> get gtk to work.
>
> ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield,
> Tyler
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:11 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Making TK accessible?
>
> I don't know if some of you remember Octavian, or if he's still on this
> list. To make a very very very long flame-filled thread shorter, he's
> basically screaming and yelling on the python list about discrimenation
> and TKInter not being accessible. Having not ran anything TK-like in
> Windows, I'm curious what the deal with this is. How could TK be mmade
> more accessible? His solution was to rip it out of the STDLib and
> replace it with WX, which won't end up happening for a few reasons, at
> least not any time soon. So, I want to try to talk to the TK folks,
> maybe jump in the trenches if I can and help code/make things more
> accessible. Can someone knowledgable about this give me some input on
> what needs to be done?
>
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Thanks,
Ty
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