Mike, Allan and Matt, Thanks for the information and help. I will check out Mike's code and have a play. Allan you provided some good resources and based upon what Matt stated before and using Easegui. This is not a path I can use. Thanks for the help anyway.
Matt, a shame. I am not sure what can be done in this area for TK, as it is open source other than someone with the knowledge introducing accessibility. At the level required to provide the required accessibility framework for different platforms for the default UI controls , is far beyond my skill level. I believe later versions of QT support iaccess2 framework which is an accessibility framework. I know from a legal point of view. If a developer or company built a product based upon the GUI environments and sold it to the USA Government or to the public. They are opening themselves to potential legal action. This concept applies in other countries. Accessibility is on a up swing and Microsoft, Apple, Google, Cisco and others are focusing on this area due to the change in the landscape. What I do not know, how this applies to open source. If there is no commercial transaction. Then this is the area I am unsure if any of the laws I am indirectly referring to impact. Anyway, this is getting off scope. Just highlighting so people are aware. Accessibility is a part of best practice for UX, UI and development. -----Original Message----- From: Tutor <tutor-bounces+mhysnm1964=gmail....@python.org> On Behalf Of Mats Wichmann Sent: Sunday, 2 June 2019 5:24 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Interactive editing of variables. >> The issue I have with a lot of GUI programs built for Python they >> generally fail in the accessibility department for a screen reader. > > I can't help there I have nearly zero experience of using > accessibility tools. But I'd expect any GUI toolkit to work with the > standard OS tools. After all they are ultimately all built using the > underlying primitive GUI API On the gui front, tk developers make no bones about tk not having been built with accessibility considerations tk (and thus tkinter which is just the Python binding to tk), is not going to work with a screen reader. wxPython is probably the best choice, it explicitly has support (although sadly only for Windows): https://docs.wxpython.org/wx.Accessible.html possibly some of the other toolkits do - I wouldn't rule out Qt either, but haven't any experience. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
