Hi Damien, The VS .Net 2005 IDE and GUI is already accessible. I don't have many problems using it with Jaws 8.0 or Window eyes 6.1. Perhaps your screen reader is out of date, or you don't have the .Net IDe configured for maximum accessibility, but Visual C++, Visual Basic, and Visual C# are all pretty accessible. There is room for improvement, but it is accessible. As far as Microsoft's polacy of using .Net rather than Visual Studio 6 age languages this is a global change where accessibility has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the fact the technology is 10 years old and can't keep up with the new features, requirements, and demands of newer Windows platforms such as Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003. The .Net aim is to make it easier to port applications across Windows platforms without recompiling the application in the process or make changes in your com interface to keep up with newer standards that came out. The theory is you could compile your app for a 32 or 64 byt fversion of .Net and still be able to drop the app on a 32 byt PC without having to compile against a 32 byt version of .Net for a 32 byt os. In addition mobile devices are becoming quite handy and it is nice to be able to write an app, and run it on your Windows CE powered device without having to actually recompile the app for a tablet PC, etc. Bottom line, visual Basic 6 is old, out ran it's usefulness, and the programming world moves on without it.
X-Sight Interactive wrote: > if they want people to start using .net they should make both the ide and > the gui's made by it more accessible in my opinion. > > Regards, > > Damien C. Sadler > X-Sight Interactive Co-Manager > http://x-sight.brandoncole.net > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
