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Avdi Grimm

May 25, 2015; 5:40pm

Accessibility?

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Some of the discussions we've had here, particularly with regard to pointing-and-clicking being the primary, and sometimes only, way to do something, made me wonder: are there any projects in progress for making Pharo accessible to the blind or vision-impaired?

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Tudor Girba-2

May 25, 2015; 6:53pm

Re: Accessibility?

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The GT project does have as goal full keyboard reachability, but we still have a long way to go.

But, your request sounds like a challenge. I am certainly not aware of an initiative in this direction. Do you have any pointers to literature for supporting developer needs for these category of people?

Cheers,

Doru

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Avdi Grimm <[hidden email]> wrote:

Some of the discussions we've had here, particularly with regard to pointing-and-clicking being the primary, and sometimes only, way to do something, made me wonder: are there any projects in progress for making Pharo accessible to the blind or vision-impaired?

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Thierry Goubier

May 25, 2015; 7:00pm

Re: Accessibility?

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Le 25/05/2015 19:58, Avdi Grimm a écrit :
> Some of the discussions we've had here, particularly with regard to
> pointing-and-clicking being the primary, and sometimes only, way to do
> something, made me wonder: are there any projects in progress for making
> Pharo accessible to the blind or vision-impaired?

There isn't any. I started a brltty support layer and opened it so that,
say, an internship could be done with it, but nothing yet.

http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~ThierryGoubier/BRLTTY

I can have very precise and effective evaluations of the behavior (or
lack thereof) of Orca, NVDA and Jaws and of any Pharo based solution, if
someone is interested.

Thierry

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