Stephen Barncard wrote: >> Richard wrote: >> My blind customers have had to walk from my wares in favor >> of competing products that use normal OS operations. :( > > surely an external package could be written to use toolbox calls for > standard ask, answer, and others like the TEXT/font dialog many apps > use. At least for MacOSX.
For all the things about OS X, making the first screen reader available only with Tiger put them about 10 years behind Windows. All programs that use standard Win API calls to display windows, menus, and controls on Win95 forward can be used with a common screen reader. Most blind users I know prefer Win for its more mature support for the blind.
Externals are good for a great many things, but support for screen readers isn't a function that's called as much as a fundamental change to how controls are rendered.
Once upon a time all controls were emulated to look like native controls, but as emulations they didn't reflect any changes to the environment, always keeping our Rev apps looking just a bit odd in a context of truly native apps.
In more recent years the Rev engine has undergone significant change to use native APIs for rendering controls, so our programs now look fully integrated with the OS.
If the method by which Rev draws controls were taken a step forward, we'd have no only native appearances, but also more native behaviors. Screen reader support would only be a happy by-product....
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
