hi > I have a few other questions, if you don't mind. I am ready to answer all your questions > What about window > management? Which desktop environment is better suited for a blind user, > GNOME, Unity, KDE, XFCE, LXDE or something else?
GNOME is Only good for kde i test it its was not work with screen readers for Unity You need install many extensions to make it work well for xfce Some parts work and some do not > Are tiled window managers better for blind users? How can a blind person > tell which window or workspace he or she is using? all type is good > Also, are any specific GUI toolkits that aren't GTK or Qt (like Tk, > FLTK, JUCE, Swing or wxWidgets) problematic for blind users? fltk and tk so bad with screen readers > 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. I do not know Because I Have not met Blind programmers for me c is Best language to me > 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? open gl And libraries that depend on it Like Clutter a big problem for the blind users have fun and be free ali miracle 2016-03-22 11:23 جرينتش-08:00, Tobias Platen <[email protected]>: > > > 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. > > -- > Sent from my Libreboot X200 > > -- Emacs is the ground. We run around and act silly on top of it, and when we die, may our remnants grace its ongoing incrementation.
