WxPython versus Tkinter.

[Littlefield, Tyler]

RR, you idiot. Did you -not- read that I was blind and using a screen 
reader? And wasn't it -you- yelling at someone about reading and 
comprehention?
On 1/24/2011 12:34 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 24/01/2011 18:48, rantingrick wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 12:21 pm, "Littlefield, Tyler"<ty... at tysdomain.com>  wrote:
>>
>> [...snip: good discussion...]
>>
>>>   Rather, I believe
>>> those pushing accessibility should concentrate on the root cause; that
>>> of fixing TKInter, and not forcing everyone else to use a different 
>>> library.
>>
>> Now you go too far!
>>
>> And this is an ironic position from someone who supports the stdlib
>> GUI that IS forced on us by default. Sure you can choose a different
>> library, but in the case of a user (and accessibility is a big USER
>> concern when that user is handicapped!) the library is already chosen
>> (Tkinter:which does not support accessibility) by the developer . I
>> can also argue that Tkinter's inclusion in the stdlib is proliferating
>> non-compliance with accessibility. I'll bet you would not park in a
>> handicap spot however you support a GUI library that ignores handicap
>> people? IRONIC!
>>
>>> I believe that the approach is the main key here, and I have had this
>>> argument many times. If I wrote an app, and someone said something 
>>> along
>>> the lines of "you need to change a core library because it doesn't work
>>> with this program," my first response would be who the hell are you to
>>> say what I need to use?
>>
>> Well these people you are chastising are disabled people. Who the hell
>> are YOU to be high and mighty about it? I guess these "disabled"
>> people get what they deserve huh! Maybe we should just do the world a
>> favor and exterminate them like the Nazis? That way we don't have to
>> cater to their selfish needs!
>>
> [snip]
> I'd like to invoke Godwin's law at this point.


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Thanks,
Ty