On 7/6/2015 4:42 AM, Joseph Lee wrote:
Some people were looking at making IDLE itself accessible to no avail (the way IDLE displays its output is such that it makes it hard for screen readers to use their display parsing techniques to tell a programmer what's on screen).
Idle itself is not the issue. It (currently) displays output (and gets input) by calling tkinter wrapper functions that interface to the cross-platform tcl/tk gui framework. I believe that just about everything written to tk can be read back by other functions.
If there is an accessibility module written in Python, I imagine that an alternate tkinter-based backend could be written. I imagine that the reader could then be incorporated into a tkinter app with an import and startup call. I would be willing to help with the tkinter part of such a backend, and test with Idle.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
