Need just a little more Interface Builder assistance
Need just a little more Interface Builder assistance
- Subject: Need just a little more Interface Builder assistance
- From: Josh de Lioncourt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:40:42 -0800
I posted the below message to the XCode list but never got any
replies. I'm posting it here in the hopes that someone will be able
to guide me through keyboard navigation of IB. Thanks.
Josh de Lioncourt
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...my other mail provider is an owl...
Begin forwarded message:
From: Josh de Lioncourt <email@hidden>
Date: 13 December, 2007 6:55:08 PM PST
To: email@hidden
Subject: Need some Interface Builder assistance
Hi,
I'm a totally blind developer, trying to come to grips with Cocoa
and XCode using the Mac's built-in screen reader, VoiceOver.
Interface Builder is proving to be quite a problem, which I've
discussed with a number of people on various lists and through
various channels.
I've been told that, while not a very good solution, I should be
able to work my way through adding a control to an interface with
the keyboard by selecting it in the Library window and pressing
Enter. Once it is added, I can position and size the control
through the Inspector windows.
While the scroll area that contains the controls is not accessible
with VoiceOver, the descriptions beneath it are. I can monitor the
change in description to select the control I need, and pressing
enter in some situations adds the control to the top level of the
NIB. That isn't very useful if I want, for instance, a NSTextView
in a window, and so far as i've been able to determine, there is no
way, via the keyboard, to add a control object to a window...or,
even, to make any control a child of any other.
I've been told this should be possible, and I'm hoping someone here
can give me some guidance as to how. It may be obvious, and I'm
missing it because the IB application is lacking in accessibility.
I'm coming from a long history of WIndows development, so please
bear with me. :)
Josh de Lioncourt
email@hidden
...my other mail provider is an owl...
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