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Thank you very much for taking the time to research toolkit accessibility and being willing to make it a deciding factor. Which toolkit did you go with? From w
by mwcampbell 5y ago
Thank you very much for taking the time to research toolkit accessibility and being willing to make it a deciding factor. Which toolkit did you go with?
From what I've read, JavaFX apparently has its own accessibility problems; for instance, I vaguely remember reading that if you used Alt+Tab to switch to or from a JavaFX window, JavaFX would automatically activate the menu bar. I've never used a real JavaFX-based app though.
As much as some of us might dislike it, I think the safest choice is Electron, or just making it a web app if that's an option.
- tombert 5y ago> I've never used a real JavaFX-based app though. Neither have I; from what I can tell, the only place that JavaFX seems to have a foothold still is "intro to software engineering" classes in colleges.
- mwcampbell 5y ago> "intro to software engineering" classes in colleges That's not nothing. Blind students need to be able to participate in those classes.
- tombert 5y agoOh, to be clear I don't disagree at all. I'm all for making this stuff more approachable.
- mumblemumble 5y agoI chose Electron, largely because there seemed to be a lot more good documentation on how to maintain a decent level of accessibility. Electron does have its downsides. On the upside, one nice thing about making screen reader support non-negotiable is that it took so many options off the table. So I was at no risk of analysis paralysis, and I don't have to worry about second-guessing my decision.