Well once you have to basics accessability is generally not covered
but once you have the basics, it should be easy enough to learn access.
Bar emulators and custom software, most mainstream software, apis and
the like have access in them or can be made accessable with little to
no effort these days anyway.
Ofcause if you don't follow standards it can get a bit tricky and
there is enough of that round but it can in most cases be done and
that was a lot better than what it was 5-10 years ago.
At 08:26 a.m. 12/01/2015, you wrote:
Yes, it might be true, that standard IT training material doesn't
cover accessibility.
But the story of a corporation's web services like online database
and online banking system using Silverlight was in fact true.
The sad fact was that one trainer had JAWS knowledge allthough he
was fully sighted, while the other trainer was totally blind.
At that time JAWS 10 was the latest available release and neither of
us could access that web site properly without sighted assistance.
But enough of that now.
I really hope that the next few years will bring more accessibility
features into Windows.
I also would like it if someone either rewrote older games where
allowed or that some kind of emulator or virtual machine
configuration would be distributed which can be used by blind people
to play some older games.
I also think that Microsoft should focus more on internal changes
for Windows than inventing a new user interface every two major releases or so.
I know that not everyone liked the optical design of Modern UI,
regardless of what new technology or hardware support Windows 8 brought.
If Windows could be more like linux where you could permanently
choose which desktop you want to use, it would probably do more good
for Windows, because then people (sighted and blind) could choose
during the installation which components they want to use.
In Linux you can use Gnome or KDE (if that's still up and running).
If you should do so as a blind user is obviously another story, but
in theory you can choose.
And that's something you could not officially with the ribbons in MS
Office 2007 and newer over the menus from Office 2003.
Same went for the Classic (XP start menu) to the Windows Vista/7
start menu up to no conventional start menu in Windows 8/8.1.
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