On 03/22/2016 07:46 PM, Fabio Pesari wrote:
All this information is great, Ali. I think the fact that blind users can operate a *libre* distro like Trisquel speaks volumes about how far free software has gotten, even compared to proprietary software. I have a few other questions, if you don't mind. What about window management? Which desktop environment is better suited for a blind user, GNOME, Unity, KDE, XFCE, LXDE or something else? Are tiled window managers better for blind users? How can a blind person tell which window or workspace he or she is using? Also, are any specific GUI toolkits that aren't GTK or Qt (like Tk, FLTK, JUCE, Swing or wxWidgets) problematic for blind users? What programming language is better suited for blind programmers? I would think indentation in Python would make things hard for blind coders, and in some languages like Ruby the case of words matters. Also, some music programs (shout out to Guitarix, for guitar effects and amp modelling) use OpenGL to draw directly to the screen. That's a big problem, right?
Lots of music programs are not accessable, because all is graphical. There are some instrument plugins that can run the DSP without a graphical interface, but often there is no way to control parameters using the keyboard only. Others such as lilypond and supercollider are purely nongraphical.
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