Re: wxMaxima accessibility

Hello,

I am curious: what do you mean by "add accessibility"?

Leo

On Wed, May 20 2026, Gunter Königsmann via Maxima-discuss <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> No idea if that will work out, but - a few years ago I tried to add
> accessibility to wxMaxima, but to no avail.
>
> Now a colleague of mine has convinced me to try an AI abonnement. The
> AI cannot really test it - at least on my computer, but I wanted to
> announce that one of the first jobs I am giving to the AI is to try
> again to add accessibility to wxMaxima. The result was loads of code
> changes. Currently a different AI model is trying to review that
> code. With a big bit of luck tomorrow's Nightly Build will actually
> provide some accessibility. If it does any feedback you send me will
> be forwarded to the AI that will try to improve things.
>
> My current impression is:
>
>  * AI is no silver bullet.
>  * It tends to try to convince you that it did a good job. If the
>    summary focusses on how good that job was - it often knows it didn't
>    manage to make it work and hopes you'll never test.
>  * If it doesn't find a bug it might just do random changes to the code
>    hoping that will help, but
>  * it is excellent at some jobs human beings aren't good at,
>  * it has resolved many problems I've been trying to resolve for years and
>  * sometimes finding a solution is an iterative task when dealing with
>    an AI - as it is when dealing with human beings.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>   Gunter.
>
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