Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 202, Issue 18

Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 202, Issue 18

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

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Hi,

Message: 36
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:47:24 +0100
> From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Cc: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
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> Accessibility Tools must function by default.  Then one can make changes
> if they want to.
> How can a person with certain limitations use free software when Emacs
> Accessibility Tools
> gets disabled by default???
>
> This is a general introspection not only focused on Emacs.  But Emacs
> developers must
> remember these things if they want to be considered as serious people.
>
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> Christopher Dimech
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An absolute +1 here. One thing is fiddling around with themes and other
cutenesses of Emacs. But when you introduce people with special needs to
Emacs, you need to have a basic accessibility toolkit that covers as many
features as possible (Note that are already there, so don't kill them,
please, please, please).
In some cases you are better served with emacspeak
In other cases, having a toolbar makes the GUI more understandable to a
user and then you might even write a module to extend and enhance the
toolbar, as in other cases extending the menubar may be enough.

Let's not loose a lot of talent that is out there waiting for an
environment that helps them flourish...

Best, /PA
-- 
Fragen sind nicht da um beantwortet zu werden,
Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden
Georg Kreisler

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