Re: [orca-list] Let's celebrate! Red hat has hired a blind person to improve accessibility!

[Kyle <kyle free2 ml>]

Quoting Rastislav Kish:
>   From my perspective, specific technology doesn't matter that much. It's
> more about getting popular gui frameworks to make accessibility easier
> to do right than break it.


Yes, that is the thought I was attempting to convey. The underlying 
toolkits that power the interfaces to the applications we use, no matter 
the technology, need to be easier to get right than to break, much like 
HTML already does in a browser. And no, we don't really need all these 
accessibility classes and such, just make it work and make it easier for 
developers to get right than to break. My own website is a really good 
example, as it was very easy to code, and although I had a little help 
with the visual styling, no one can say that a screen reader user cannot 
use it. Accessibility came right out of the box, with no specific 
awareness or forethought and no specialized a11y tags needed ... it just 
works. Linux developers of the toolkits powering our graphical 
applications are at a unique advantage in this regard, as the source 
code that makes everything work is freely available. This means that it 
should be possible to build in this stuff, or even rebuild it if 
necessary, so that applications just work out of the box with Orca, 
without specialized classes or anything else that tend to get in the way 
of development, as it's a large amount to have to learn in many cases.

~Kyle