RE: Coding VB.NET 2005 app for accessibility
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:46:41 -0800
I will note that it also works fine if the label is above the text box.
Note that the label should have the tab set to the previous value so for
example if your text box or control you want read like a list box to have
the label to the left and the listbox tab stop is 6 then the label that is
related should be set to 5. Alignment some times cause it to be read or not
read for example I have a label above a text box and I aligned the text to
top bottom and center and they all worked but I have seen if you move the
label farther away and don't align it to the bottom it doesn't read. This
might have been just a fluke but its something to be thinking of. I wish
Freedom scientific, GW, and the other screen reader companies would
publicize the algorithm they use to search for these things but I have not
found any such publications. I can tell you though if you correctly place
controls by labels 90% of the time they are found.
If your label can not be right next to the control like in a table of
controls that is not laid out in a listview one thing you can do to make
sure a screen reader speaks it is when the control is just about to receive
focus change the color of the label that you want spoken and the screen
reader will pick it up but this should not be necessary unless you just have
a really weird layout.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob J.
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:54 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Coding VB.NET 2005 app for accessibility
JFW usually works well with text boxes when there is a label just to the
left of the text box. When you tab to the next text box, JFW will read the
label and then the contents of the text box. While the PC cursor is on the
text box, the SayLine command will usually read the label and the contents
of the text box. The alignment of the label with the text box is sometimes
critical for this to function properly. Control buttons usually have a
caption that JFW will read when you tab to the next button. While the PC
cursor is on the button, the SayLine command will usually read the caption
for that button.
hth
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Quaiattini" <Peter_Quaiattini@xxxxxx>
To: "Blind Programming" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:42 PM
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
BITS OPS - Data Hosting Services
Canadian Pacific Railway
(403) 319-6579
peter_quaiattini@xxxxxx
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