WxPython versus Tkinter.

[python at bdurham.com]

Mark,

> From my queries to some of the Tcl/Tk folks, it seems that while the knowledge and expertise is not present in the core developer 
community, they would be more than happy to help people who do have some
knowledge in this area so that Tk could be made to be more accessible.

Some ideas here:

Linux: Linux users can use the free and small Tka11y library from the
site below. To use this library, one replaces "import Tkinter" with
"import Tka11y" - couldn't be easier!
http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/Tka11y

Mac OS X: Quoting Arndt Roger Schneider from this list: "I think Tk-aqua
(also 8.6) should work out-of-the-box with brail-lines, text-to-speech
and such; the older carbon built however won't." I'm not sure what is
involved in using an independent version of Tkinter that's newer than
the build of Tkinter that ships with the standard library?

Windows: While there appears(?) to be no built-in accessability for
Windows versions of Tkinter I've seen Windows Tkinter applications that
have used Windows native TTS functionality to provide a limited form of
accessability for users with poor vision.

> And if/when this does get done for Tk, I promise at least to make sure that the tutorial at http:///www.tkdocs.com covers this topic

I really enjoyed your tkdocs.com site!! Based on the new ttk
functionality you covered on your site, my company actually began moving
GUI projects from wxPython back to Tkinter. How's that for an odd
trend?! :)

Malcolm