[Lazarus] Lazarus and accessibility

[Lubos Pintes]

Hi,
Probably the problem is TBitBtn. Although after heavy fighting with the 
IDE I was able to set the Caption, screen reader is unable to see it.
I made an experiment where I put two buttons, one TButton, and one 
TBitBtn to form. I was confused, because those component have window 
class name "Button". I mean win32 window class name.
So it looked like "Ok, it is Button, regular Windows control, but is not 
named".

Request for some clever guy here: Can someone please point me to part of 
LCL source code where windows things are made? I mean where handles are 
created, window classes defined etc.
To make support for screen reader seems to be challenge because it seems 
that everything in LCL has the "Window" class.
Dňa 20.9.2011 17:05, Vincent Snijders wrote / napísal(a):
> 2011/9/20 Lubos Pintes<pintes at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>> I am screen reader user. I tried lazarus to see how accessible it is. It is
>> almost inaccessible, no surprise. :-)
>> But I would like to try make it more accessible, if possible and if my
>> knowledge are sufficient. I have prior experience with Delphi 5/6.
>> I checked out the "latest and greatest" code from SVN and compiled it with
>> FPC 2.4.4.
>> So let criticize :-).
>>
>> The first thing, it seems to me that buttons and labels have no caption.
> Strange, because I do see them. Your screen reader may not pick them up.
>
>> I think so because I created application with two buttons and my screen
>> reader reported "Button1 button" "Button2 button" as expected. In Lazarus
>> screen reader reports only "button". So would it be possible to name labels
>> and buttons? Labels because some edit fields for example are not named.
>> I was unable to set caption in IDE because property grid is unusable. This
>> doesn't matter, the default caption "Buttonx" was sufficient for testing.
>>
> Can you test with TBitBtn? And with TLabel?
>
> Vincent
>
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