GNOME accessibility developers concerned about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 8, 2010 23:52 UTC (Mon) by xnox (guest, #63320)
Parent article: GNOME accessibility developers concerned about Oracle's commitment

hacking a11y is not interest although it would be awesome to have VoiceOver
like text-to-speech framework so that other developers can freely use it
without worrying about language/speed/voice preferences of the user.

GNOME accessibility developers concerned about Oracle's commitment

Posted Feb 9, 2010 17:21 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

a11y stuff really needs to be integrated into the widget toolkit for
applications.

So application developers still need to do accessibility testing to make
sure they did not break something in a stupid manner*, but individually
GTK/Gnome, QT/KDE, Fltk, etc etc need to be the ones that put the most work
into accessibility.

The best you can do is probably create a freedesktop.org standard that
toolkit/desktop makers can use so that they don't have to create everything
from scratch.

Maybe something like this:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/acc...

* the only way a developer can know how end users use their software is by
working with end users and doing real usability testing. Guidelines can
help you avoid the worst pitfalls when it comes to usability, but each
application is unique and rules that apply to one piece of software can't
be universally applied to all software.