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> not every next important application will be used by blind people or people with disabilities If this application is important to people in general, it would
by ptx 9y ago
> not every next important application will be used by blind people or people with disabilities
If this application is important to people in general, it wouldn't stop being important just because you happen to be blind or otherwise disabled. If everyone uses a particular walled-garden service for some daily task, blind people need to use it too, just the same as everyone else.
- bastijn 9y agoIf you develop for an audience where you do not know every of your end users, i.e for the generic public, i would argue you can never say it will not be used by blind people (and hence have to develop for it). I was talking about app developers that build applications for jobs that require sight because of the nature of the job. Say a medical diagnostic application or airplane (simulator). You have to develop for the color blind, but for the completely blind, not so much. When selecting an UI toolkit I do not have to put that requirement up top.
- mwcampbell 9y agoThat's reasonable, as long as a developer, once familiar with a toolkit like this one, doesn't go on to use it for applications with a less restricted audience.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoThere are a couple domains for which I'm pretty sure sight is required. Photoshop for instance. Is there any way this program could be made accessible? For all the others, I wonder if a command line interface wouldn't just be better—sometimes not just for the blind.