On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Lee Maschmeyer, le Tue 17 Mar 2009 14:49:52 -0400, a écrit : > > Note that one profile per program is the way Windows screen readers work, > > and Windows is a vastly more complicated environment than the Unix console. > > I wouldn't say so. The unix console has a vast amount of various tools > for which you'd have to write a profile.
Furthermore, as soon as you lack a profile for some application, then you're out of luck and have to resort to manual searching for the cursor. Last time I wandered in the Windows world, those screen readers had profiles only for a few applications. I say "few" here because there are simply too many applications for them all to have a profile. So, while Office and IE were rather well supported, this wasn't the case for less mainline applications. And of course as soon as you customize your toolbar or other widgets (or colors and/or screen layout in this case) then the profile doesn't work anymore until you also tweak the profile and maintain those changes separately. This is why I think having good heuristics to get away without any profile is a better solution. It might be more difficult to implement than a simple profile based solution of course, but overall results should be better. Nicolas
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