Re: will next interface builder be accessible with voiceOver?
Re: will next interface builder be accessible with voiceOver?
- Subject: Re: will next interface builder be accessible with voiceOver?
- From: Travis Siegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:46:13 -0500
The entire suite of Xtools have actually gotten considerably better
than they were in tiger. Each release does a little bit more to make
them accessible.
The latest versions are almost there, but it's still not possible to
build an application's interface from scratch w/o sighted assistance.
This is something I've complained to apple about repeatedly, and
apparently, so have many others, since as I said each release gets
just that much closer.
I don't know about snow leopard, but if apple continues on the track
they've been on, I'd expect ibuilder to be fully accessible in another
few releases, and wouldn't that be great.
In the mean time, you'll need to use code to generate your buttons/
menus/what have you unless you have sighted assistance (I do not)
available to help make the interfaces for you.
If you need help with this, I have some samples, and perhaps on list
would be willing to provide others upon request (something that can
make a button with a label of my choice would be nice) but otherwise,
stand-alone development on the osx platform for developers using
voiceover isn't for the faint of heart, and at times it's downright
impossible, but it is doable with a bit of hacking, and some tradeoffs.
(building your interfaces in java is one solution) then tying them to
the code in your Cocoa programs is the fastest and simplest way to
generate full-blown interfaces, though apple officially no longer
supports this sort of thing, it can still be done.
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