Hello Katherine,
There is no one catch-all solution that will work in every situation
when evaluating the accessibility of unfamiliar software. A good place
to start is to become comfortable with the WEEvent utility from App
Central. Also, the online script training resources created by Chip
Orange, which are also available at App Central, will likely prove helpful.
Regards,
Steve
On 12/9/2011 11:11 AM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Hello all,
I'm curious. I was just comparing the accessibility of the SharpDevelop IDE with JAWS with that of WE and I find that neither one makes any difference. Both of them have accessibility problems in all of the dialogs and beyond. The obvious thing would be to script it once my programming skills get better, right? I would say so, but how does one go about doing that when they don't know what the controls and stuff are supposed to say anyway? This is driving me nuts because SharpDevelop might be a fantastic option for those programmers who want a professional grade IDE but can't afford the likes of the professional version of Visual Studio. The biggest problem I see is that lists are not read and radio buttons have spoken state, but their content is not labeled. Have any of you smart scripters figured out a way to get to stuff like that without the help of a sighted individual at all? (I despise the prospect of having to ask a sighted person anything that has to do with that
because it means that they must stop what they are doing.)
Katherine Moss,
Administrator of the AccessCop Network, previously Raeder24.org. Visit us on the web
at http://raeder24.org<http://raeder24.org/>
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