[brailleblaster] Re: Advice requested on accessibility for the blind
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:45:34 -0500
Dick,
Accessibility with SWT is almost automatic. BrailleBlaster does not use
any particular accessibility features now, though it might use the
accessibility package in SWT later. In the Bfailloeblasterr menu,
BBMenu.java there is a listener for each item. The event is not sent
until the enter key is pressed on that item. There are SWT widgets for
handling lists. These will be used later, for example in handling the
list of recent documents.
If you have Mercurial you can get the source of BrailleBlaster from its
googlecode page. BBMenu.java is in org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor I
could also send you this class privately as an attachmennt, if you wish.
John
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 06:03:09PM -0500, Richard Baldwin wrote:
> I know this is off topic for this list, but I also know that there are
> several excellent SWT programmers that frequent this list who probably know
> the answer to my question.
>
> The objective is to make it possible for a blind user of an SWT GUI to
> navigate through a list of items, such as might be found in a Combo, a List,
> or perhaps a set of Radio buttons, and cause an event to be fired for one
> and only one of the items in the list when that item is chosen.
>
> It looks to me like using the following code to register a listener on each
> item in the list causes each item to fire an event when the arrow keys are
> used to traverse the list:
>
> addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter()
>
> I guess what I am looking for is something like an ActionListener in the AWT
> and Swing that can be fired by pressing the Return key after the arrow keys
> have been used to choose a specific item.
>
> I am finding that learning the SWT and trying to achieve accessibility for
> blind users at the same time is something of a challenge.
>
> If you prefer to contact me and have this discussion off list, that will be
> OK with me.
>
> Thanks,
> Dick Baldwin
>
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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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