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Or you can just not do that, which is what Blender does. To be fair, there's not all that much use in Blender for folks who cannot see a screen clearly.
by dumbo-octopus 3y ago
Or you can just not do that, which is what Blender does.
To be fair, there's not all that much use in Blender for folks who cannot see a screen clearly.
- robin_reala 3y agoAssistive tech isn’t just screen readers. But yeah, Blender specifically is a visual design tool, I’ll give you that.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoI know it's not just screen readers, but what a11y concerns would make sense for blender? It barely uses audio and what it does probably can be covered by external tooling. For visuals... the only things that occur are probably covered by Blender's UI scaling/zoom. But I could easily be forgetting something or ignorant. Edit: Oops, somehow forgot input - but there again, I would natively expect most things to work via keyboard/mouse emulation, and beyond that you'd probably need custom integration, but it's got the Python hooks to facilitate that.
- dumbo-octopus 3y agoWhat comes to mind is someone with a tremor that is unable to use classic pointing devices and might have better luck using tab/arrow-key navigation to move through the buttons/menus/etc. From my cursory examination of the product I don't see much support for keyboard navigation, though as a professional tool I'm sure there's a plethora of keyboard shortcuts that one could learn.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoGood point, I'd never noticed that before - menus seem fine once you get them open, but I can't find a way to open any menu without clicking, and ex. the preferences pane does seem completely impossible to navigate via keyboard. So yes, I agree that that appears a downside to their own toolkit.
- dumbo-octopus 3y agoFWIW you need to implement that yourself with basically any advanced enough toolkit. Even in HTML-land, any list widget worth it's salt is handling keystrokes itself.
- panzi 3y agoThough I think all/pretty much all menu items can be accessed by pressing space and then typing the name of it. (If you use the setting space for command search.) There will be an auto completion list and it remembers the last action. So that is even better than what many other GUI applications do, where you have to search for ages in deeply nested menus for the action that you know how it is named, but don't know where the hell it is hidden. Quite frankly every program should have that feature.