[Python-ideas] Accessible tools (original) (raw)

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 20:56:17 CET 2015


A few (possibly more aceessible) alternatives to IDLE:

It could be helpful to get a Wiki page together for accessibility: tools, features, gaps, best practices, etc. On Feb 18, 2015 1:43 PM, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

On 2/18/2015 12:30 PM, Bryan Duarte wrote:

Here are the tools I have tried already ... Idle ... it would be nice to have something like Idle made accessible.

Idle uses tkinter, the interface to the tcl tk gui system. I have read that tk is not designed for accessibility. There is nothing we can do about that. If our idlelib code makes matters worse, say with tooltips, we could try to improve it. But I just do not know if there is anything we could do. -- Terry Jan Reedy


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