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Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and VFP
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28/09/1999 14:10:48
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Gotcha. My post was a little tongue in cheek...

>Hi Erik,
>
>Visually impaired doesn't neccessarily mean blind. Umm...Imagine someone with extreme near-sightedness. They may be able to see the screen and make out shapes but not able to read anything smaller that 25 point type. They would be able to move the pointer over a blurry white blob and the app would speak the contents of a txtBox.
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>>So the blind user could randomly move the mouse cursor over the screen hearing all the captions? If they can see to use the mouse, can't they read the captions?
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>>>Not silly at all. Pretty cool. Now, if you could use MouseOver to also have the control "say" what it is with voice control......
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>>>>This might be a silly idea but....
>>>>
>>>>There was a thread last week about making buttons grow to a larger size when the mouse moved over them. I had thought that might be a cool way to help out visually impaired users, since you could do it for any control.
>>>>
>>>>On mouseover all controls with text could double or triple in size making it very easy to read.
>>>>
>>>>What do you think?
Erik Moore
Clientelligence
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