On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:56:55PM EST, Mario Lang wrote: > If you use GTK2 as a toolkit, there is a slight chance your application > might be useable by the same category of users since there > is some ongoing effort to make GNOME accessible. However, I'd like > to emphasis that this kind of accessibility is not very widespread > yet (only early-adopters are playing with the technology right now, > there is a very small user-base and many bugs yet to squish before > it gets really useable), and some blind people might > not be happy with having to use graphical interfaces at all, > even if there is a bit of accessibility in there. That is mostly > because some people feel that having to use a GUI in the first place > is an inherent inefficiency which should be best avoided. > > I'd be more than happy to answer any questions some of > you folks may have after reading this. Either send my private mail, > or through that list... I'm also frequently on IRC as 'delYsid', > feel free to pester me with questions about this. I would just like to pitch in here and say that I am also happy to answer any questions people might have. Unlike mario who is blind, I do have some vision, however still rely on accessibility technology to get my work done. I am also on IRC as TheMuso. -- Luke Yelavich http://www.audioslack.com luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20050223/df928283/attachment.bin
