Re: [libreplanet-discuss] We need a Great campaign To tell the programmers to improve their programs To work well with the screen Reader

[Tobias Platen]

On 03/22/2016 07:46 PM, Fabio Pesari wrote:
> All this information is great, Ali. I think the fact that blind users
> can operate a *libre* distro like Trisquel speaks volumes about how far
> free software has gotten, even compared to proprietary software.
>
> I have a few other questions, if you don't mind. What about window
> management? Which desktop environment is better suited for a blind user,
> GNOME, Unity, KDE, XFCE, LXDE or something else?
>
> Are tiled window managers better for blind users? How can a blind person
> tell which window or workspace he or she is using?
>
> Also, are any specific GUI toolkits that aren't GTK or Qt (like Tk,
> FLTK, JUCE, Swing or wxWidgets) problematic for blind users?
>
> What programming language is better suited for blind programmers? I
> would think indentation in Python would make things hard for blind
> coders, and in some languages like Ruby the case of words matters.
>
> Also, some music programs (shout out to Guitarix, for guitar effects and
> amp modelling) use OpenGL to draw directly to the screen. That's a big
> problem, right?


Lots of music programs are not accessable, because all is graphical. 
There are some instrument plugins that can run the DSP without a 
graphical interface, but often there is no way to control parameters 
using the keyboard only. Others such as lilypond and supercollider are 
purely nongraphical.

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