linux and accessibility applications

[Doug Sutherland]

 > the problem with that is try getting developers to do it.

Yeah, I never said it would happen or is realistic, but I think the
trend right now is kind of silly (adding accessibility to GUI). For
example, in Java, adding accessibility to swing is kind of strange
IMO. Swing is a huge set of GUI classes. Its the last things I'd
want to use to write accessible applications.

I've been brainstorming some ideas since I am writing a driver for
viavoice. My current thinking is that the shell is how the user
interfaces to the computer, and a shell designed for speech would
be a whole lot better than GUI adapted to accessibility.

   -- Doug