accessing the command prompt

Will H. Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Thu Oct 6 02:39:39 UTC 2005


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of Thomas Beckett
Sent: Wed 10/5/2005 6:48 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: accessing the command prompt
 
>>  Many
>> applications are missing the tags needed for screen reading hints, and
>> other applications are just silent.  Just getting used to the keypad
>> control layers is hard enough.
>>
>Not being blind I never thought how difficult this must be until I read this.
>Where are these tags? Is it something that people could start adding?
>foe example could I look for programs that dont contain these tags and
>add them? How would we go about this? I notice when making glade
>programs that there is an accessability section which is where I
>gather that Gnopernicus would get the tags you talk about, but what
>about programs that are hand coded from gtk code and dont use glade to
>design the interface? I would be interested in updating some programs
>when I have spare time if I can work how how to do it. Is there a 
>team working on this sort of thing so I can find out from them how
>best to do it?

Here is a good place to start.  It takes a lot of extra work.
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/index.html


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