Thanks for this valuable insight. You have confirmed for me that Wx is probably the right Perl/GUI route for me to pursue. If it works with JAWS on Windows, it certainly should work with other ATs, as they would all be using the same MS accessibility API.

I am very interested to that Java/SWING isn't as accessible as is perhaps made out. It would be so nice if it transpired that it was easier to code accessible GUI applications in Perl than in Java. (Market penetration would still be an issue - most computers ship with a JVM, but I haven't seen too many non-UNIX systems that ship with Perl :-(

In reply to Re^2: Accessible GUI Applications in Perl by smiffy
in thread Accessible GUI Applications in Perl by smiffy

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.