[Lazarus] Lazarus and accessibility

[Vincent Snijders]

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