User with Sight Problems / Blind
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Hi All, I write free software for Amateur Radio, and there are many Hams who either can't see at all or only a little. I am going to add talking to the program using Microsoft's technoloy www.microsoft.com/speech but need pointers to groups specialising in user interfaces for blind people, for example the default keystrokes they expect to use etc. If anyone can help me with links so that I can design a good interface, please publish them here or save bandwidth and send them to me via simon.brown@kns.ch and I'll add a summary later. TIA, :rose: Old Simon HB9DRV
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Hi All, I write free software for Amateur Radio, and there are many Hams who either can't see at all or only a little. I am going to add talking to the program using Microsoft's technoloy www.microsoft.com/speech but need pointers to groups specialising in user interfaces for blind people, for example the default keystrokes they expect to use etc. If anyone can help me with links so that I can design a good interface, please publish them here or save bandwidth and send them to me via simon.brown@kns.ch and I'll add a summary later. TIA, :rose: Old Simon HB9DRV
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/ is a good place to start as it leads to many forms of disability discussions. The one I was trying to find for you comes from the Resources collection of manuals, I know its online in the microsoft area somewhere but can not find it at the moment. This document particularly covers the design techniques we programmers should consider in order to make all of our programs as accessible as possible to the disabled using standard Windows accessibility dlls. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid=28000544 This is close though, the SDK link takes you to the actual resouces that aid in designing in that way. We do it for the joy of seeing the users struggle.
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http://www.microsoft.com/enable/ is a good place to start as it leads to many forms of disability discussions. The one I was trying to find for you comes from the Resources collection of manuals, I know its online in the microsoft area somewhere but can not find it at the moment. This document particularly covers the design techniques we programmers should consider in order to make all of our programs as accessible as possible to the disabled using standard Windows accessibility dlls. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid=28000544 This is close though, the SDK link takes you to the actual resouces that aid in designing in that way. We do it for the joy of seeing the users struggle.
Thanks, I'll look at this. Old Simon HB9DRV