Re: [orca-list] writing accessible multi-platform application

[Sebastian Humenda <shumenda gmx de>]

Hello MichaÅ

MichaÅ Zegan <webczat_200 poczta onet pl> wrote on So, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:31:35 +0100:
> Hey, I encountered the following problems when trying to write
> accessible, cross-platform gui applications that can be equally
> accessible on linux and windows:
> 1 - c++/qt: inaccessible on anything that lives at this time.
> 2. c++/gtkmm: accessible on linux, partially on windows.
> 3. c++/wx - accessible on both, but has focus problems so counted as not
> fully accessible.
I tried it on Windows several years ago and at least with Jaws it was
accessible. I've run my old program on GNU/Linux a while ago and found
exactly what you've described. I think that these problems are
mostly, at least for e.g. button controls, a problem of focus. When I
set it to one particular element, the navigation in very simple
applications was no problem.
Having said this, I encountered problems with the ListControl's of wx.
There was a new implementation in wx 2.9 which now uses GTK+ to create
ListControl's and I believe if someone would be in constant contact
with the developers, there would be even more progress possible.

> So what to do to write fully accessible applications without any mess
> like that?
I had to write a console application. At least, it works and
accessibility was in this case mandatory.

Sebastian
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