Re: Labelling icons

oh, hell, swing and swat, remember this and things will be a lot better, they need to use swing and swat! 

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Rains" <fred58@xxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: Labelling icons
Hi Dave, At work, I am being asked to provide an accessibility wish list for a new app that is being developed in java. One of the items I would like to put on the list is that all graphics have some kind of textual label that can be detected by JAWS. I don't do GUI programming so I wasn't sure if this was even possible. I mostly write batch processes using perl and sql, so accessibility of my own programs has not been an issue. 

Thanks,

Fred

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From: "Dave" <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:26 AM
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Labelling icons


The long answer is....it depends.  Are you the application author?  If
so, then the answer is yes with varying amounts of effort depending on
the type of application in question and the way in which the icon is
represented.

On 11/9/10, Fred Rains <fred58@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

    Just wondering if there is a way to associate text with an icon in a
windows app similar to the way you would use an alt tag for an image on a web page? I know you can label graphics using JAWS, but that is not what I am asking. I guess what I am asking is is there some kind of text property that can be added to a graphic that JAWS can detect and speak automatically without using JAWS itself to label the graphic? I don't need to know how to 
do it, I just want to know if it is possible.

Thanks,

Fred


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