…this is an interesting question that we really didn’t think much about so far, I must admit. As (the other) Michael wrote, on the WebPortal side it works to some extend, but on the workflow editor side of KNIME Analytics Platform it’s a bit more complex. Eclipse’s GEF (on which this is currently based), seems to have experimental “WCAG 2.0 support” but we’d need to investigate what this actually means for our workflow editor. We are moving this part to a browser editor anyway right now, so it’s probably smarter to keep this in mind for the future development instead.
Do you have some pointers how workflow-editor type environments are made accessible to blind people? From what I could find (disclaimer: so far- I didn’t spend days searching!), this would require some sort of a textual representation which would make the data flow editor type logic rather convoluted. Are there more modern representation/reading devices that can also deal with some degree of graphical elements? Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Michael