Re: [orca-list] Most accessible IDE for java

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Krishnakant:

I'd be interested in knowing a little more about this litigation.

And, thank you for putting the Eclipse package together.

Janina

Krishnakant writes:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2016 08:43 AM, Jason White via orca-list wrote:
> > José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br> wrote:
> > > I like eclipse, but I'm disappointed with the current accessibility problems
> > > presented in linux.
> >
> > Do you mean the Eclipse problems? Perhaps telling the developers that a number
> > of people care about this will raise the priority of fixing those bugs.
> >
> > Although more attention has been given to accessibility in recent years,
> > including the implementation  of accessibility APIs in applications, nobody
> > seems to have solved the software engineering problem of bringing down the
> > number and severity of bugs to an acceptable level and keeping it there. There
> > are just too many accessibility bugs, and it doesn't seem to matter whether or
> > not the software is developed by a large corporation with vast rsources (as in
> > well known operating system and application  vendors) or by smaller groups
> > with fewer resources.
> >
> > The solution is probably a combination of technical and social changes,
> > including educational measures and more effective regulations.
> That last point is very crucial.
> We have filed a public litigation in Indian court for this reason.
> As far as technical stuff is concerned, I guess the awareness is lacking.  I
> am not talking about accessibility awareness as such, but about the fact
> that there are professional blind programmers.
> So the priority of accessibility bug fixing changes automatically.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
>
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