Re: Accessibility?

[Greg Washington]

I appreciate the quick responses about "gnucash" accessibility.  I was 
wondering about gnucash because Quicken is not very JAWS friendly either and 
I was hoping for a better alternative.
Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Alexander" <m...@umich.edu>
To: <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>
Cc: "Greg Washington" <gregw...@ameritech.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility?


--On February 6, 2010 6:19:49 PM +0100 Christian Stimming 
<stimm...@tuhh.de> wrote:

Am Samstag, 6. Februar 2010 schrieb Greg Washington:
I am blind and use the JAWS screen reading program.  Is Newcash
accessible to screen reading programs?

Unfortunately this is not the case. The program is not (yet) designed
for non- GUI usage. Sorry for that.

JAWS is not non-GUI, it uses sound and keyboard commands to navigate the 
GUI.  The real question is whether the X-window package used by GnuCash on 
Windows is JAWS compatible.  I rather suspect not, but I don't use GnuCash 
on Windows so I don't really know.  In a former lifetime I was responsible 
for JAWS support in a Windows application (Arbortext's Epic document 
system).  Making it work well requires adding lots of obscure COM 
interfaces to the application.  This would require significant changes to 
the Windows version of GnuCash.  Even if it does work with JAWS it won't 
work well.

By the way, ask JAWS to spell GnuCash.  It isn't what you think.

              Mike


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