From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-03-10T04:10:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12350] Re: GUI Toolkit for Ruby

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Ben Tilly wrote:

> applications.  But even so, as someone who doesn't
> really enjoy GUIs very much there is one feature that I
> really, really wish someone would put into one of these toolkits
> [...] a way to take something that was written
> as a GUI application, [...] and have something
> with a reasonably scriptable interface [...]
  [...]
> please when you alert me, don't bother putting up a box
> that needs to be clicked.  There are no humans to care,
> 

All of this would make GUIs accessible to people using Braille.
The only real problem is the access to things which are diagrams.
This is like ALT tags on web images -- if one accepts that the presence
of an interpreter is necessary for access, even graphs can be made
accessible.  But observe comments about audio books and how the 
reader's style can affect the "feel" of the book.  It raises interesting
issues beyond the scope of this list.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben

	Hugh