> On May 1, 2022, at 12:11,Ashley Breger wrote:
> 
> ... I am looking for an accessible SQL program to use on my Slint system. ...

tl;dr - no real answers, but some questions and ideas...

I'm assuming that you're referring to SQL, a language for interacting with 
relational databases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL).  If not, please 
indicate what else you have in mind.

There are lots of databases that support SQL, though the features and syntactic 
details can vary a lot.  However, most of them have a command-line interface 
which you can use to submit SQL queries, etc.  So, they should be pretty 
blind-accessible, at least on the input side.

Output is another question.  Because relational databases operate on 
rectangular tables, they tend to use text-based formatting to delineate rows 
and columns.  So, for example, you might get long strings of spaces and 
vertical bars such as this:

|   foo |   bar |   baz |
|   123 |   456 |   789 |
|  1234 |  4567 |  7890 |

Unless you have a screen reader that can let you navigate this sort of thing, 
finding the relevant table cells could be pretty tedious.

Of course, with a sufficiently clever query, you can (sometimes :-) pare down 
the output to just a few cells.  I do something like this when writing 
debugging trace code, to avoid having to dig through large piles of output.

One thought I have had, from time to time, is that it would be nice to have 
tooling that transforms various tabular output formats into HTML tables.  This 
could let the user employ screen reader navigation to crawl around the table.  
However, I have no idea if anything of this sort exists.

Assuming that there are some blind-accessible spreadsheet programs, you might 
be able to dump the tabular output into a file (e.g. CSV) and then examine it 
using the spreadsheet program.  Might this work for you?

- Rich Morin

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