Re: Gnopernicus and Glade

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Bill,

Thanks for testing Glade and explaining what it needs for accessibility. 
The reason i am so interested is that I am developing an Open Source 
braille transcription program which will have math and tactile graphics 
built into it from the start. Gooid GUI's will be crucial to this goal. 
They will also be important in some of the proofreading utilities, where 
special fonts will be used. There is a website that contains a lot of 
design documents, but no code yet. You can look at it by going to 
http://www.chpi.org/gnomebrl.html .

While i agree that your priorities for accessibility (Desktop and office 
first) are good for general users, there is nothing to prevent me from 
personally focusing on the accessibility of development tools. That is in 
the spirit of Open Source.

John

 On 10 Apr 2003, Bill Haneman wrote:

> Hi John:
> 
> I have confirmed that gnopernicus and glade are "talking to one another"
> when glade runs, and that the basic infrastructure for the accessibility
> APIs is there.   I suppose that's a testament to the "built in" nature
> of GNOME accessibility, since there has been no effort to date in
> tweaking glade to make it really usable with gnopernicus; to be honest
> it's pretty far down on the wish list.  Since it's a rather specialized
> application glade will need that bit of tweaking (whereas a more
> 'vanilla' gtk+ application might mostly work as-is).  I agree that a
> fully accessible glade will be a significant milestone, but we've
> prioritized the basic desktop and 'office' stuff before GUI developer
> tools, generally.  Most of us GNOME developers use emacs more often than
> glade :-)
> 
> That said, I am CC'ing glade's maintainer Damon Chaplin, who has been
> very helpful in the past.  Perhaps it's not too soon to start adding
> names to the nameless icons, adding tooltips (which would give us
> accessible-descriptions), and doing a few tweaks to the canvas to make
> it more fully accessible.  Also, I am not sure about the current state
> of keyboard navigation for glade - Damon ?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 04:46, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In its present state, would Gnopernicus be of much help in working with 
> > Glade? When it does work smoothly with Glade, it will have reached the 
> > point of usability as far as I am concerned. Then I can use it to do some 
> > serious programming for Gnome. Of course, it must also work with gedit, 
> > nautilus, etc.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
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