Re: Custom accessibility worth it?
Re: Custom accessibility worth it?
- Subject: Re: Custom accessibility worth it?
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:59:37 -0500
On Sep 6, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 2006-09-06 5:08 PM, Ricky Sharp at email@hidden wrote:
Do others have apps with their own UI that you've successfully added
accessibility to? Or, is everyone here making their Aqua apps
accessible? If I'm the only one doing custom stuff, I may choose to
do the bare minimum at this point, and wait to add the rest when
Leopard ships; assuming of course APIs, feature requests, better docs
come in by then.
Here are a few thoughts after a long day at the office. They are
just my
impressions, and I'm kind of tired, and I could certainly be wrong.
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Bill, thank you very much for the detailed analysis; I really
appreciate your opinions on the matter.
Accessibility may not have as much going for it in terms of market
pull --
unless and until the federal government gets serious about
enforcing the
statute requiring that software purchased for use by the government
or by
schools be accessible.
My product aids children in mathematics. It's primarily selling to
individuals for home use, but there's also been some decent volume
moving recently to schools. My hope was to really beef up my Section
508 compliance to be potentially the only title with decent or even
"full" support.
On the other hand, I have seen lots of signs that accessibility is
rising in
importance at these companies. I expect to see the laggards achieve
good
accessibility compliance pretty soon now.
This is definitely a good thing.
While I haven't yet decided on the details, I will probably take a
staged approach. The app in question has two types of users:
students and parents/teachers. I will concentrate first on making
all relevant screens accessible for the sake of the students. The
more complex screens (where many of my custom controls come into
play) are for student management and preferences. Such screens are
used by the parents/teachers.
I've already done initial Section 508 work in the app prior to it's
June 2006 release to include alternate color schemes for users with
color deficiencies and having the interface be able to be driven
exclusively via a keyboard.
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