[Hamara-devel] Fwd: Re: update on lxde accessibility

[Krishnakant]

On Thursday 31 March 2016 12:47 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Krishnakant (2016-03-30 17:18:41)
>> On Wednesday 30 March 2016 07:25 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> Personally my concern is not so much "Mate or Lxde", but instead it
>>> is "GTK+ 2.x or GTK+ 3.x or Qt 4.x or Qt 5.x or which combination of
>>> those".  I believe _that_ is what makes it more or less lightweight -
>>> beyond avoiding OpenGL as core requirement.
>>>
>>>
>> As far as I am concerned, gtk3 is very buggy in many areas and
>> accessibility is one of the major area in which there is a lot of
>> problem there.
> Too bad, because most lightweight desktop would use only a single widget
> toolkit - including web browsing - and only Webkit linked against GTK+
> 3.x is really safe to use, I believe (based on a recent blog post laying
> out the status quo of Webkit - sorry, don't remember the URL).
>
> ...but a semi-lightweight dual-toolkit (Gtk+ 2.x + Xulrunner) system
> might be doable.  Beware that it would then also need to avoid GStreamer
> (will be only GTK+ 3.x for next stable Debian release).
>
My contact with webkit is pretty recent but apart from basic 
accessibility, no further work has been done.
And if every thing is going to switch to gtk3 then I think millions of 
blind people will have to face a digital blackout for some time till 
accessibility comes at power there.
Well a dual approach is what I also recommend.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.