On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Shawn Walker wrote:
While there are accessibility solutions for Motif, they were
commercial at last check, and keyboard-centric in nature.
??? Keyboards are handled by the X Server.
In other words, hooks for voice readers, etc. or special, alternate
input devices are not dealt with properly or at all.
Alternate input devices are handled by the X Server as well.
Your criticisms are irrelevant and baseless.
The IST in fact documents many of the limitations of section 508
compliance with their solution here:
http://www.ist.co.uk/mas/s508.html
That document shows that Motif /IS/ compliant. It refutes your claim.
Yes, but compliant with *lots of limitations* and as I noted before,
this solution is a commercial one.
So, the point stands about OpenMotif at the least...
But none from the OpenGroup website, whose sources still date from
2000.
contain OpenMotif. Google for 'open motif' brings up quite a bit.
Motifzone.com is creating releases and packages. Not exactly the
'dead project' that you are making it out to be.
I assert that the 'official' release of OpenMotif is effectively dead
or abandoned by its original publisher.
Your assertion appears to be baseless because there is nothing wrong
with the support model, nor is that model unique. On your basis, one
could ridiculously assert that BIND, BSD etc is effectively
abandoned by
Berkeley and are therefore 'dead'. That's just nonsense.
I'm fairly certain all of those products have been updated since 2000 8)
It has nothing to do with liking or not, the facts are that motif is
outdated, effectively dead, and legacy.
Your assertions are not facts, and don't change the actual facts.
I will let the numbers of users of Gtk, Qt, etc. products speak for
themselves. They paint the facts in hard, cold numbers.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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