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

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

On Tuesday 20 December 2016 10:09 PM, Tom Masterson wrote:
> To make accessibility universal there are a couple of things that need 
> to happen.
>
> 1.  We need to make it part of the education system and start teaching 
> it's importance and how to do it as part of coding classes.  It is not 
> taught and therefore not even thought of by most developers.

One major point in my litigation.  We must make it part of education.
> 2.  Make it easy if not almost automatic so that developers don't have 
> to spend extra time adding it.  Especially when using an IDE it should 
> automatically add at least some form of accessibility items even if it 
> is something silly like "button" for a button but atleast get 
> something there.  When designing a User interface adding accessibility 
> should be just as easy as dropping a widget on the screen and at most 
> filling in some extra info which should come up as part of the other 
> stuff used for building the widget.  When you are coding on short 
> timelines having to think about and spend extra time adding other 
> classes or otherwise to make something accessible does not fall into 
> the plans.
Let's have some one document Orca, at-spi etc.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.