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

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Not having ever filed a bug on Eclipse, I wonder about the tracking
system. Is it easy to identify which bugs are accessibility bugs? Is
there an accessibility keyword, or some similar identifier that one can
sort on?

Janina

Orca screen reader developers writes:
> 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.
>
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> Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org

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Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa