RunRev Accessibility

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Tereza,

I have tried a few screen readers and none can work with Revolution.  
The screen readers I tried usually use the mouse cursor to determine  
which control or text should be described by means of audio. You can  
easily do this with Revolution's speech features. Additionally, it  
might be useful if your app could run from the command line. Perhaps  
you could turn on speech features automatically, after reading the  
system's universal access settings.

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

--

Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
http://economy-x-talk.com
http://www.salery.biz

Our servers may be off-line between 28 April and 1 May. If you have an  
urgent request, you can contact us at <economy.x.talk at gmail.com>.  
Apologies for any inconveniences.





On 5 mei 2008, at 16:57, Tereza Snyder wrote:

> Hiya all,
>
> Does anyone know (spare me the testing!) whether apps made with  
> RunRev using ordinary controls are accessible to screen readers out  
> of the box? I have over the years implemented various accessibility  
> modes in apps using Rev—single-switch access comes to mind—but I've  
> yet to tackle screen-reader access in Rev. I know Hypercard wasn't  
> accessible because I had to implement a blind-access mode for a  
> major application back in the day when I worked at the Trace Center (http://trace.wisc.edu 
> ), and I suspect Runtime Revolution isn't because—at least in the  
> beginning—'system' controls were emulated. But is that still the  
> case? on all platforms?
>
> A client has a C application that has bogged down in development. I  
> know I can redo it in Rev and carry it forward expeditiously;  
> however there's a federal grant involved and furthermore the client  
> is committed to universal access.
>
> Anyone have a clue?
>
> tereza
>