RE: Accessible Entity Relationship and Data Flow Diagrams
- From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:01:41 -0400
Hi,
I wonder aloud. Can something like this be described in XML?
Jim
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Bauer
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6:24 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Doug Lee
Subject: Fwd: Accessible Entity Relationship and Data Flow Diagrams
Hi there,
I received this message earlier today. Phil Robinson isn't on this
list (to my knowledge), so I'm posting this here in the hope some of
you will be able to plot him a course of action.
Phil can be reached at philipstuartrobinson<AT>gmail.com. I can also
forward anything e-mailed to me.
Thanks,
Jim
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----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Robinson
To: Geoff Chapman
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6:39 PM
Subject: Design Documents for Software Development
Geoff,
The design documents (in web format) that I will get my students to
produce for the "online accessible, scrabble game" are as follows:
1. Requirements Analysis Document.
2. Data Dictionary.
3. Glossary of Terms.
4. Entity Relationship Diagrams (for anything that might be stored in
a database).
5. Data Flow Diagram.
Now the two documents that pose problems for me are numbers 4 and 5,
as they are obviously diagrammatical. and I wish for the design
document to be readable by a vision impaired software developer who
uses a screen reader - but preferably that the document they are
accessing be simultaneously viewable by a sighted software developer
who is sitting next to them.
Normally an entity relationship diagram will consist of tables that
have lines linking particular table and a data flow diagram produced
with flowChart software. I am wondering if vision impaired software
developers have an equivalent marked up form of these kind of
documents that help them comprehend how the system is put together in
both the database relationship sense and the data flow sense.
And is there a software utility that exists that converts a flowchart
diagram into an HTML document that shows the equivalent kind of
information? It would be really neat if there was flowchart software
that could save into both a diagramatical form, and some form of
marked up text base format that could be saved as a single HTML
document, so that if the vision impaired developer wanted to work
alongside the sighted developer they could be looking and navigating
around a single document, with audio information being presented to
the vision impaired developer whilst the sighted person seeing what
part of the flowChart the vision impaired person is accessing.
If anyone can make any suggestions.
Phil.
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