Tkinter accessability options (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)

[Octavian Rasnita]

From: <python at bdurham.com>
Subject: Tkinter accessability options (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)


> Octavian,
> 
>> Not all the people were happy because the darkness disappeared partially for some of them and more and more blind people started to use a computer, and discovered that the Tk interfaces are absolutely inaccessible for them.
> 
> Might this package help? (I have no experience with this project)
> 
> Tka11y 0.1.1 - accessibility-aware Tkinter
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Tka11y
> 
> Another idea: Use Tkinters <Enter> events to speak TTS descriptions of
> the current control and/or its contents?
> 
> I would love to hear from anyone using either of techniques ... or other
> techniques or screen reader products ... to make their Tkinter
> applications accessible to low vision/blind users.
> 
> Malcolm


Thank you very much for those projects! I will test them.

Unfortunately they are not a solution because if I want to create an accessible app I can do it using an accessible library, but if the other programmers of the world use a non-accessible by default GUI, than their programs won't be accessible, or they will offer a limited accessibility like Java Access Bridge offers to SWING-based apps.

If Tkinter would use that project that should offer the accessibility by default, that would be a real solution.

Octavian