Re: An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux

[Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>]

Hi.  Can you provide examples where writing a ncurses program to act as
the interface to a Gnome app would be helpful?  Based on my experience
with Gnome, if the program provides the accessibility info, then it is
accessible in Gnome.  If it doesn't provide the accessibility info, I
can't see how adding the extra layer of an ncurses app talking to a GTK
app will help.
I agree Gnome screen readers still need work, but wouldn't it be better
to focus on improving them?

          Kenny
	  
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:09:59PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Laura Eaves writes:
> > Hi Janina --
> > I tried sending this once before but it bounced due to message size...
> > But as for gnome:
> > That is interesting about the query capabilities of the gnome interface --
> > but I disagree that implementing a full ncurses, text-only representation
> > based on these queries is necessary, as that would just require a lot of
> > useless code to do screen layout of text when graphical screen layout has
> > already been done by gnome, right? Actually, some users don't know this, but
> dGo
> 
> I didn't say it was necessary. I said it was possible and that there are
> good reasons to consider doing it that way, not the least of which being
> that gnome is not very accessible, whereas the console is.
>