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

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

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.