[sword-devel] Sword for the Blind

[Don Elbourne]

Here is some good info on making Qt programs accessible to the blind

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/accessible.html

If interested, one of my colleagues, who is blind and uses a screen 
reader, is willing to review BibleTime and make suggestions.

-- 
by grace alone,

Pastor Don A. Elbourne Jr.
Lakeshore Baptist Church
https://lakeshorebaptist.net
The Dagg Center for the Blind
https://daggcenter.org


On 2/24/2020 3:42 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 24.02.20 23:08, Don Elbourne wrote:
>> Have any of the Sword front-ends been tested to see how well they do
>> with screen readers, used by the blind and visually impaired?
> Being involved with the BibleTime frontend, I can say that to my
> knowledge BibleTime has not been tested.
>
> There is a long-standing low-priority issue for this thou:
>    https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/5
>
> We haven't given this issue much thought, but it would probably require
> a redesign of the BibleTime frontend, to the extent that writing an
> entirely new, a more accessible frontend, might be a better option,
> because it might not be straightforward to make some of our GUI flows
> usable with text-to-speech engines.
>
> While BibleTime uses the Qt toolkit for the GUI and the latter has at
> least some support for accessibility interfaces, we have not had any
> code changes being introduced for accessibility as far as I know.
>
> I guess many (including myself) don't have a much knowledge (let alone
> experience) about how to develop and test accessible frontends, so any
> guidance on this matter would be welcome. What environments, software or
> screen readers are used, are there any guides available for best
> practices (e.g. like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are for the
> web) etc?
>
> Best regards,
> J
>
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