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Re:Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at on... by Pxtl on Sunday September 04, 2016 @09:19PM (#12427564)

We just hired a 100% visually impaired student and he said that most MS apps provide enough metadata cleanly to play with screen reader apps like JAWS, and that the real bane of his existence was GTK-based applications on Windows.

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Re:Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at on... by blakeyrat on Sunday September 04, 2016 @09:34PM (#12427602)

I think GTK+ apps on Windows are the bane of everybody's existence. What a crappy windowing framework.

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Re:Blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at on... by jscholes on Monday September 05, 2016 @06:55AM (#12429417)

> We just hired a 100% visually impaired student and he said that most MS apps provide enough metadata cleanly to play with screen reader apps like JAWS, and that the real bane of his existence was GTK-based applications on Windows.

Not just GTK. Qt, Java, Electron-based... on Windows at least, the only way to create a truly screen reader accessible app is to use native controls. And I mean native controls, via the Windows API, not just ones which look native. Qt has some academic accessibility support but it's practically unusable.

Ironically, given the article I'm commenting on, the situation is worse on OS X.

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