[lsb-discuss] Motif and LSB

[Michael Sweet]

Janina Sajka wrote:
> Alan writes:
>>> Of course, the larger issue is how prevalent this will be as we go
>>> out and talk to ISVs, particularly those coming from the Unix world.
>>> If the use of Motif is still widespread, and ISVs generally have no
>>> interest in moving to Gtk and Qt (as Adobe, Real, and others
>>> we are working with have done), then we need to find a good solution
>>> for the Motif issue. Naturally, we'll have to weigh this
>>> with the other urgent matters that we're currently dealing with too. :-)
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on what to do here?
>> One thing to note is the status of accessibility and accessibility
>> legislation. That puts right and proper pressure on vendors to ship
>> accessible software.
>>
> Unfortunately, there's no accessibility support in Motif. Someone else
> needs to weigh in on how difficult it might be to add a11y support, but
> I suspect it wouldn't be trivial.

That's a bit of an overstatement.  What's missing is support for
screen reading.  Other accessibility mechanisms (keyboard navigation,
font scaling, etc.) are supported and have been for many years.

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