Re: [orca-list] FileZilla

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Steve:

The GNOME Accessibility Developer's Guide contains a fair amount of 
information: 
http://library.gnome.org/devel/accessibility-devel-guide/nightly/

We should try to work with it and then work to update it as people have 
questions.

Will

On Feb 4, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:27:46PM +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > Accessibility is already built-in if you use GTK widgets.  The problem
> > is the wx widgets toolkit which doesn't implement the necesary
> > accessibility support on Linux.  The solution is to push wx widgets
> > developers to take accessibility seriously.  If they don't know people
> > care, they don't have motivation...
>
> My problem with this sort of advicacy is when we press a developer to
> "make their application or toolkit more accessible," said developer is
> most likely going to ask "Well, what do you want us to do about it?"
> and frankly, I really don't know what to tell them.  It ends up being
> an empty request.  I think from what I've seen in many places is the
> methods of "making an application to be accessible" are not clearly
> outlined so even the most seasoned developer doesn't know what to do.
>
> Oh Willie, I'm experienced as a programmer so could consider digging
> into those programs to see what might be done but again like I said
> above, knowing where to begin or where to suggest is a challenge at
> best.
>
> My immediate plans are to teach myself Python as that is the scripting
> language for Orca; maybe I can get started there and work up to bigger
> and better things.
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