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Accessibility for visually impared #812

Open jcoffland opened 12 years ago

jcoffland commented 12 years ago
Trac Data
Ticket 812
Reported by @bb30994
Status accepted
Component FAHControl
Priority 6

The the text2speech engine doesn't work where the text has been rendered as graphics.

GTK does provide accessibility support with ATK (Accessibility Toolkit), which is also availble in PyGTK used by FAHControl. The FAHControl GUI could make use of ATK to make it more accessible.

More information is available here: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=20560&p=205391#p205070

jcoffland commented 11 years ago

Comment by @bb30994 An alternate suggestion has been proposed: Rewrite the advanced control to use a web interface like Web_Control rather than that horrible clunky GTK interface. As far as {I'm} aware, GTK can only be made accessible under linux, not windows.

jcoffland commented 11 years ago

Comment by @bb30994 It should be noted that the WebClient has a great deal of graphically rendered text rather than real text. For example, the slider bar is totally "invisible" while the progress bar apparently contains text that the software used by the blind can voice.

jcoffland commented 11 years ago

Comment by @bb30994 Let me change that. It the Web Client does not have a "great deal" of graphically rendered test. On closer inspection, there's really very little. The logo at the top need not be interpreted, but the tabs and the words on the slider bar could be changed to make it more accssible to the blind.