23 Feb
2005
23 Feb
'05
6:35 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:56:55AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
I can try to summarize the main issues here for you.
I'm afraid I dont
know of any specific web sites which would be detailed enough
to explain the whole situation to you.
In general, at soon as some application has a text-mode
user interface (ncurses, command-line based, readline based or so on),
it is quite useable by people with visual disabilities (braille
or speech output users).
Unless the GUI and TUI interfaces differ significantly like in GLAME,
where GUI is for poor whimps (as their manual says) and TUI is for
scheme programmers.
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.
This Gnopernicus stuff is really in early stage and very buggy. It is
almost like trying to read a book with a microscope (the problem is
not the same, but results probably are).
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...
So am I, so please discuss on LAU and LAD as much as possible, as
there are others who are interested too.
--
Tapio