[Lazarus] Lazarus and accessibility

[Lubos Pintes]

Hi,
Goot note, I could specify OS.
Windows XP SP3.
Dňa 20.9.2011 17:07, Sven Barth wrote / napísal(a):
> Am 20.09.2011 16:51, schrieb Lubos Pintes:
>> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>> Perhaps it is all about reading through lfm files and setting caption
>> property? Or perhaps LCL has some accessibility support? I can try to do
>> it and send patch if it will be accepted. Or any reason I don't see why
>> captions are not set? Or perhaps they are set but screen reader doesn't
>> see them for some reason?
>> Thank for any comment.
>
> Which operating system are you using?
> And if you're using Linux do you know which widgetset (GTK1, GTK2, Qt) 
> you compiled Lazarus for (if you don't know, then it might be GTK2, as 
> this is the default)?
>
> I might not help you regarding accessibilty, but the answers might 
> allow others to more easily help you.
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
>
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