[jawsscripts] Re: XTerm medical Dictionary
- From: "Sean Farrow" <sean.farrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:24:00 +0100
Hi:
What is the window class of the definition panel, what is the website
for the dictionary?
Cheers
Sean.
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Subject: [jawsscripts] XTerm medical Dictionary
Hi all,
I just downloaded this and thought I'd give a few initial impressions.
If anyone else is familiar with this product please chime in.
It's a quite straightforward interface, visually speaking. An edit input
control to narrow your search, a listbox of results, and then the
"definition panel" which shows the actual data of interest.
As you might have surmised its this panel that causes us the problems...
It's a custom type of rich edit window, as far as I can determine.
MSAA has nothing on it, and JAWS get text functions are happy to return
truncated data if the window isn't maximised or there's too much to fit
on a screen.
This isn't an encyclopaedia so most definitions are brief, and as the
data set we have to work with is so large it's difficult to analyse
everything that will be presented to a user. The website claimed that
the dictionary handles tables, links, and other formatting - this being
the case I see no way for jaws to get to the data, other than with the
screen scraping approach.
I've yet to find a dictionary entry that's so long it scrolls off the
screen with the window maximised. The "back" button was a strange
graphical symbol, so I can only assume that the scrolling icons aren't
standard either.
I can't find any way of focusing words or lines within this text -
there's no "cursor" for navigating definitions. I'm leaning toward
virtualising the definition text, but I need to find out exactly what
sort of tabular, graphical, or linked data is included so I can figure
out how to handle that. Furthermore, you can right-click certain words
in a definition to get a definition of that word - but again, I can see
no visual indication of which words are definable and which aren't.
Does anybody have any recommendations? The virtual viewer is quite
atrocious for handling complicated data. On the other hand, this is a
quick reference tool; surely the primary concern is to find a
definition, read it, and move on?
Any thoughts?
Sean.
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