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This is a page layout and report designer, I doubt that the blind users are the target audience.

• deleted 8y ago
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• mwcampbell 8y ago
  That's true if the application is entirely about visual layout, e.g. positioning and font sizes. But a blind user should still have an accessible way of controlling the content and structure of a report. And you might be surprised at how much information about layout and formatting is accessible in word processors. Furthermore, now that this toolkit is available, companies will use it for applications that are required for job functions that ought to be perfectly accessible to blind people. An inaccessible application can lead to a blind person losing their job. Also, I mentioned other disabilities. A person that can see but has a severe mobility impairment should still be able to use this app.
  • cglace 8y ago
    Should estwing consider consider people without arms while designing their hammers? I'm not being dismissive I'm just wondering how far your beliefs go.
  • jimbokun 8y ago
    "That's true if the application is entirely about visual layout, e.g. positioning and font sizes." That's almost exactly what this tool is for.
• geofft 8y ago
  The title of this submission is "Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed," not "Show HN: page layout and report designer." The criticism is that this particular method of making Java UI code run in the browser, which is being shown to HN because it's presumably interesting to other people with large amounts of Java code as part of different applications, is inaccessible - not that the page layout and report designer is inaccessible.