Screen readers for Tkinter (was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)

Octavian Rasnita orasnita at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 11:27:12 EST 2011


From: <python at bdurham.com>
> Mark/Octavian,
> 
> It sounds like Tka11y (spelled with the digit '1' vs. the letter 'L')
> addresses this problem for Linux users.
> 
> According to its website, adding accessability support is as simple as
> changing one import statement.
> 
> Details follow my signature.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
> 
> Tka11y - Tk Accessibility
> http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/Tka11y
> 
> <quote>
> Note: Currently, accessibility is only available via ATK <=> AT-SPI on
> Linux. Sorry, no Windows MSAA support.


This project is good, a step ahead, but in order to be really useful it should be the one provided by the default Python package.
And of course, it should also offer support for Windows, since most of the computer users use Windows, especially those who need accessibility features.

Octavian








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