On Apr 14, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > There's nothing in the LyX GUI that makes it inherently less accessible than, > say, Microsoft's Word. The main problem with adding accessibility is in > using an API that keeps LyX portable. There's lots of little details that > need to be addressed in order to make a GUI easily accessible by the > sight-impaired, but it's definitely in the realm of the possible. Consider > that many apps of similar GUI complexity are in fact accessible by the > sight-impaired, even web browsers! The little details have to do with making > navigation efficient and straightforward, like making sure that all graphical > element have meaningful labels, that there are suitable keyboard shortcuts > for all actions, and so on. Input from an actual sight-impaired power user > would be most useful.
On at least one occasion, on the texhax mailing list, I suggested LyX to a visually-impaired user, who was interested until he learned that the underlying toolkit was QT, which isn't well-supported by screen-readers. At one point in time, LyX was GUI-independent, but apparently that was given up? I guess the best solution would be for QT to become friendly to screen readers, but that's out-of-scope. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
