Re: accessibility question

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj harvee org>]

Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "Eric S. Johansson" <esj harvee org> writes:
>
>
> > thank you for these links.  Unfortunately, they confirmed my fears
> > which is that is really focused on blind accessibility first, extreme
> > handicapped user second (i.e. quadriplegics) and speech recognition
> > dependent users are an afterthought.  And it's (understandably) only
> > Linux focused.
>
>
> How is it Linux focused? GTK+ (and thus ATK) is available for a
> variety of platforms.

quite right.  I went back and looked further and that was a mistaken 
impression about it being Linux focused.  I got the impression from the 
documentation talking about everything in the context of gnome.

By the way, I found the article at scansoft that I was talking about 
earlier.  It shows the limitations of what applications 
NaturallySpeaking will work with.  There had been some other Dragon 
created adaptations for other applications in the past but scansoft has 
not seen fit to keep them working.

http://knowledgebase.scansoft.com/view.asp?tnID=5104&sQuery=Select%20and

it would be nice if there were some way to add gtk to the list of 
compatible Windows/edit controls.

By the way, this technote is also a great example of politics of 
language.  Any application not using one of the limited number of 
Windows classes is considered "nonstandard" which carries a whole 
boatload of cultural implications, all unpleasant for the handicapped 
user.  One of the fallouts from this has been for "experts" on speech 
recognition mailing lists to push users towards Microsoft applications 
that work with NaturallySpeaking.  All other applications are seen as 
undesirable and should not be used.

---eric