On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:56:55PM EST, Mario Lang wrote:
If you use GTK2 as a toolkit, there is a slight chance
your application
might be useable by the same category of users since there
is some ongoing effort to make GNOME accessible. However, I'd like
to emphasis that this kind of accessibility is not very widespread
yet (only early-adopters are playing with the technology right now,
there is a very small user-base and many bugs yet to squish before
it gets really useable), and some blind people might
not be happy with having to use graphical interfaces at all,
even if there is a bit of accessibility in there. That is mostly
because some people feel that having to use a GUI in the first place
is an inherent inefficiency which should be best avoided.
I'd be more than happy to answer any questions some of
you folks may have after reading this. Either send my private mail,
or through that list... I'm also frequently on IRC as 'delYsid',
feel free to pester me with questions about this.
I would just like to pitch in here and say that I am also happy to
answer any questions people might have. Unlike mario who is blind, I do
have some vision, however still rely on accessibility technology to get
my work done. I am also on IRC as TheMuso.
--
Luke Yelavich
http://www.audioslack.com
luke(a)audioslack.com