[BlindMath] Short introduction and Octave question

[Bill Dengler]

Just a thought: if Octave’s GUI uses GTK, it won’t be accessible on Windows/Mac but will possibly work on Linux with Orca.
The command line is likely more efficient in any case.

Thanks,
Bill

> On 10 Feb 2020, at 06:50, Bernhard Stöger via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear list members,
> I am Bernhard Stoeger, blind mathematician from Austria - not Australia -, now working as a computer scientist with main interest in math accessibility for blind individuals. I was already on thist list several years ago, and I am sure that some of you may know me from events such as ICCHP.
> 
> Here a question on Octave: I worked with it some years ago, using version 3.6.4, only in the command line mode. Now a student approaches me, wanting to use it in the current 5.2.0 version. While his sighted teacher suggested the GUI version to him, I found that the GUI shipping with Octave from the GNU distribution is inaccessible - at least in ist default configuration.
> 
> Here the question: Is anygbody of you aware of either a possibility to configure the current GUI towards accessibility, or of an older Octave GUI, perhaps even one from a third party developer, which might be accessible with a screen reader?
> 
> Thanks a lot for an answer, and kind regards, from
> 
> Bernhard Stoeger
> 
> 
> 
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