[Python-ideas] Accessible tools (original) (raw)
Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 10:20:14 CET 2015
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[...] Semantic information about user interface elements, such as buttons and scroll bars, is exposed to the assistive technologies. Qt supports Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and IAccessible2 on Windows, OS X Accessibility on OS X, and AT-SPI via DBus on Unix/X11. The platform specific technologies are abstracted by Qt, so that applications do not need any platform specific changes to work with the different native APIs. Qt tries to make adding accessibility support to your application as easy as possible, only a few changes from your side may be required to allow even more users to enjoy it. [...] On Feb 18, 2015 1:56 PM, "Wes Turner" <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
A few (possibly more aceessible) alternatives to IDLE:
IPython in a terminal
IPython qtconsole (Qt toolkit)
IPython Notebook may / should have WAI ARIA role tags (which are really easy to add to most templates)
Spyder IDE (Qt toolkit) embeds an IPython console with a Run button and lightweight code completion: https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/
I have no idea whether the python-mode Vim plugin is accessible: https://github.com/klen/python-mode
Here's my dot vim config: https://github.com/westurner/dotvim
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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