Needed: Python IDE for the visually impaired

[Neil Hodgson]

Michael Chermside:

> I received a request from John Guildford, asking whether there is
> an IDE available for Python development which will work with
> Window-Eyes, Jaws, or other common screen readers. Unfortunately,
> IDLE will not work (presumably because the TK widgets are not
> standard windows widgets).

   It is unlikely that any of the Scintilla based IDEs (Komodo, PythonWin,
HAP, Boa, Wing, SciTE, ...) will be suitable as Scintilla is a custom
control. Scintilla is also incompatible with screen magnifiers as it does
not use the standard Windows caret.

   Neil