Hello Krister, On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:51:19 +0200 GMT (27/09/2003, 15:51 +0700 GMT), Krister Ekstrom wrote:
TF>> I will just put in the bug report that "tab" doesn't do what it TF>> should, and they should review all of the dialogs. Will that be OK? - > I think it won't hurt to give a pointer or hint to the dialogs where > the problems are most significant, but that's my opinion. I will give them quite a number of examples. TF>> Hm. I have reports from Jaws users that the Mail Despatcher is pretty TF>> unusable for them. But I understand that there is a standard which TF>> doesn't require to "train" Jaws; so is it a bug or not? - Jaws doesn't TF>> run on my Chinese Windows, so I cannot test it myself. > I don't really know what you mean by "standard that doesn't require > training", so can't say for sure if this is a bug and where it lies. > The controls in the dispatcher are non-windows-standard, I meant the Windows-Standards that Joe has already referred me to. I just thought when they are adhered to, a "training" is not necessary any more. Never mind. > which means that a screen reader could have difficulties recognizing > controls for what they are. In Jaws, it was possible to label the > graphics for checked and unchecked status, thereby one could get the > right info, in Hal, it's a little bit trickier, see below. Why do you say "it was possible"? Is it not possible any more, or do you just mean you are not using Jaws any more? >>> I've not examined the trainability options in Hal 5.21, TF>> I'm looking forward to your report. I will also check out whether Hal TF>> runs on my computer (if they offer a trial version, that is). > They indeed offer a demo version so it shouldn't be any problems Will look into it soon, thanks. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Subway: "We Are Not Public Transportation, Dammit" Message reply created with The Bat! 2.00.6 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html