Re: Is Android Programming Accessible?

  • From: "Jay Macarty" <jay.macarty2009@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:37:29 -0500

Thanks. I looked at the sdk home page and read some about it. I think I will download it and see what I can do. Thanks for the pointers.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: RE: Is Android Programming Accessible?
Not like the one in swing no but they do have accessible events that all the 
current screen readers use like talksback and spiel.  if you use common
controls they just work but if you do something special you will have to
throw events.  In fact even getting static text to talk you have to throw
events.  that's one of the problems with the OS right now static text does
not talk for example if you do the very basic hello world it won't talk
without help.  It will say the title of the dialog but not what's in the
static text.  Google is working on things but for now coders need to make
sure to look through the core java stuff and read the accessible_info events 
and a good place to learn to do it is in view.java in the main frameworks.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay Macarty
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 7:02 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is Android Programming Accessible?

One other question; although, I will probably find this out when I get a
project set up. Does the java for androyd have something like the
accessibility framework found in swing? I seem to recall some java platforms 

like Java ME a few years ago which didn't have the accessibility framework
due to trying to keep the memory footprint to a minimum.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Jaquiss" <rjaquiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Is Android Programming Accessible?



Hello:

    The Android uses a Linux kernel and Java for the programming.

Regards,

Robert

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