Re: Coding VB.NET 2005 app for accessibility

Here are two web articles:

How to create accessible controls by using Visual Basic .NET or Visual
Basic 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819351

Walkthrough: Creating an Accessible Windows Application
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984454(VS.71).aspx

Personally, I have not found a reliable way to get JAWS to read labels
associated with controls other than editboxes.  Window-Eyes seems to do
better at recognizing MSAA properties of a .NET control.

Jamal
On Thu, 24
Jan
2008, Peter
Quaiattini wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:42:14 -0700
> From: Peter Quaiattini <Peter_Quaiattini@xxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: Blind Programming <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Coding VB.NET 2005 app for accessibility
>
> Needing some developer advice in coding an app in VB.net 2005 -- I'm not
> the developer; rather the user.
>
> My colleague is building an app for our team to use. However, when I tab
> through the various controls in the app, JAWS announces, for example,
> what is the current value of the control. However, it does not tell me
> any info about what the control is - for example what one might consider
> to be the title of the control.
>
> He has also coded balloon help (active when the mouse is over the
> control), which doesn't speak by JAWS either.
>
> So, can anyone point me / him to some coding resource that will show
> examples of how to code a vb.net 2005 application so that JAWS talks
> when using it?
>
> Alternatively or additionally, if I need to set something up specific
> within JAWS to get JAWS to talk when navigating the application, that
> would be helpful as well.
>
> In other words, using VB.net 2005, what does one need to do in order for
> JAWS to inform the JAWS user of the information that the developer wants
> the JAWS user to know?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Peter Quaiattini
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>
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