Re: Which accessibility tools do you test with?
Re: Which accessibility tools do you test with?
- Subject: Re: Which accessibility tools do you test with?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:25:00 -0500
- Thread-topic: Which accessibility tools do you test with?
on 2008-01-08 10:30 AM, Frank Neumann at email@hidden wrote:
> we at Sun are working on accessibility support for the Mac Port of
> OpenOffice.org / StarOffice.
>
> As we are are getting closer to a usable state of our work, we are
> wondering which accessibility tools are used most out there. Right now
> we are testing against VoiceOver, since it ships with every Mac.
>
> Do you know of other products supporting the NSAccessibility-API we
> should test against?
>
> Any hints are appreciated.
You will get a lot of value out of developer utilities that let you easily
examine how an assistive application (like Voiceover) sees the accessibility
hierarchy of your product.
I'm aware of two utilities that do this:
1 - Apple's free Accessibility Inspector, which is part of the Xcode Tools
distributed with Mac OS X.
2 - PreFab UI Browser, a commercial product I wrote. A 30-day trial version
is available at <http://www.prefabsoftware.com/uibrowser/>.
UI Browser, and to a lesser extent Accessibility Inspector, also help you
test whether your product is properly exposing accessibility attributes and
actions for all your UI elements. UI Browser also lets you monitor any
accessibility notifications issued by your product.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
www.quecheesoftware.com
PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.com
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