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| Christoph Kaufmann... |
 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:39 pm |
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Does anybody know of a tools that enables blind people to use Filemaker
solutions?
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| Martin Trautmann... |
| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:39 pm |
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:39:03 +0200, Christoph Kaufmann wrote:
Quote: Does anybody know of a tools that enables blind people to use Filemaker
solutions?
Usually databases are presented as forms and tables - a major problem
for blind people who will not see the grouping of blocks, but will see
data line by line only, using e.g. Braille terminals.
Thus I'd say: usual FMP layouts are not suitable for blind people.
However, FMP is suited very well to create proper layouts which are
suitable for blind people.
Example: consider this "simple" input mask:
+ Name ++++++++++ + Address ++++++++++++
+ [____________]+ + [_________________]+
+ first name + + street +
+ [____________]+ + [ ][____________]+
+ last name + + ZIP town +
+ |title list |+ + |state list |+
+ title + ++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++
A user friendly input for blind people here would be e.g.:
*** Name ***
first name: [____________]
last name: [____________]
title: [____________]
*** Address ***
street: [____________]
zip: [___]
town: [____________]
state: [____________]
Use e.g. FMP to check its layout via the web: see it as HTML
Use a text only web browser, such as lynx, w3m etc.
To make it even harder: limit your terminal width to 1 line height, 40
characters width and try to figure out what can be seen on this page.
HTH,
Martin |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:22 am |
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"Christoph Kaufmann" <clk at (no spam) tele2.ch> wrote in message
news:1j6v4pf.15q7c8l12jxz4yN%clk at (no spam) tele2.ch...
Quote: Does anybody know of a tools that enables blind people to use Filemaker
solutions?
I read somewhere the other day that the new Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
includes in-built support for various braille screen readers, so as long as
you set-up the database appropriately (e.g. no graphic-only buttons), I
can't think of any real reason a blind person couldn't use FileMaker Pro
databases.
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