On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Luciano de Souza <[email protected]> wrote: > LCL applications can't be used by blind users.
That's a very generic statement and also only a half-truth. Many basic controls will work out of the box for accessibility, although many won't. I already improved a the accessibility of LCL-Carbon and am also working in the accessibility of LCL-CustomDrawn-X11 and LCL-CustomDrawn-Cocoa. Also this discussion is high platform specific: Which operating system are you talking about? > Recently, I heard about a blind girls who couldn't access a desktop > application. The developer makes an application wich returns a database > query in a picture not readable for screen readers. The company doesn't have > patience to search for another occupation for her. The consequence is that > she will probably laid off. > I don't know if the application was writen in Lazarus. Even if it were written in Lazarus, the problem in this specific case is not of Lazarus, but of the programer that wrote the program. It is a design flaw in the program which is unrelated to the library utilized to write it, since pictures by definition are not accessible without an alternative text. > And why is not LCL accessible? Just the same answer as for every other questions of the kind: Why doesn't the LCL support feature Y? Answer: Because there is no developer which contributed code to implement feature Y. > So my ask is: does LCL handle this event? No, but patches to support it are welcome. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
