Message: 36
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:47:24 +0100
From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
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Accessibility Tools must function by default. Then one can make changes if they want to.
How can a person with certain limitations use free software when Emacs Accessibility Tools
gets disabled by default???
This is a general introspection not only focused on Emacs. But Emacs developers must
remember these things if they want to be considered as serious people.
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Christopher Dimech
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An absolute +1 here. One thing is fiddling around with themes and other cutenesses of Emacs. But when you introduce people with special needs to Emacs, you need to have a basic accessibility toolkit that covers as many features as possible (Note that are already there, so don't kill them, please, please, please).
In some cases you are better served with emacspeak
In other cases, having a toolbar makes the GUI more understandable to a user and then you might even write a module to extend and enhance the toolbar, as in other cases extending the menubar may be enough.
Let's not loose a lot of talent that is out there waiting for an environment that helps them flourish...
Best, /PA