http://eyesfreelinux.ninja/enFri, 22 Sep 2017 20:57:18 GMThttps://getnikola.com/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://eyesfreelinux.ninja/posts/wxwidgets-accessibility.htmlMike<div><p>For a while now I've been writing <code>wx.Python</code> and <code>wxWidgets</code> applications for MS Windows.</p> <p>But I've always assumed both to be inaccessible on Linux/GTK. In fact that was the response from one of the regular contributors on the <code>Orca</code> mailing list.</p> <p>But I think there must have been some advance in versions or something because in the last couple of days I have:</p> <ul> <li>Written a <code>Hello World!</code> application for Linux in `wx.Python</li> <li>Written the same for Linux using <code>wxWidgets</code> (in C++)</li> </ul> <p>And they are both totally accessible!</p> <p>OK that's probably a rash statement because the apps I wrote did not have every kind of <code>wxWidgets</code> control. But buttons, message boxes, menus and static labels are all spoken by <code>Orca</code>.</p> <p>My <code>wxWidgets Hello World!</code> program did have all the above.</p> <p>So, now I'm on a mission to try out as many of the other native GTK controls as I can, or at least all those which are obviously not irrelevant to blind folks, like bitmaps and stuff.</p> <p>The versions I am running are:</p> <ul> <li><code>wxWidgets</code> version 3.0</li> <li>GTK 3.0</li> </ul> <p>I don't know about the wx.Python version but it's what is in the <code>Debian Jessie</code> repo so it is probably quite up-to-date at the time of writing.</p> <p>Next mission, given good results with more controls is to write a tree-based GUI designer, because being a blind programmer, drag-and-drop WYSIWYG GUI designers are not really of any use.</p></div>GUIwx.PythonwxWidgetshttp://eyesfreelinux.ninja/posts/wxwidgets-accessibility.htmlWed, 05 Aug 2015 16:32:55 GMT