>>>Have any of you guys checked out the Narrator that ships with Win2000 pro? It does a lot of this narrating for you. I don't have a soundcard on the machine I'm on now, so I can't test VFP apps, but this should get a long way towards compliance.
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>>No, but it sounds cool. What I was thinking about, though, was screens with tons of information where you may want a verbal synopsis of what is being shown without the whole thing begin read off. With memo fields and whatnot, that could get old real fast.
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>I taught myself the Agent interface by writing an agent class that looped through the databound controls on a form and explained what each one was by using the metadata of the field the control was bound to:
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>"This is First Name. It stores the first name of the customer."
>"This is Address. It stores the first address line of the customer's shipping address"
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>Even that got very tiring to listen to very quickly.


I did the same thing (more or less) 2 years ago. If the users in that order-entry program hovered their mouse over some controls for too long then Merlin told them what was in that control and other stuff. I also used it to navigate the forms/controls and act as an input for those forms. It was really cool but it got tiresome REALLY fast and the users got confused with the flood of information coming at them from sight/sound/touch. <g> It was also pretty useless in an office with more background noise than an empty sound studio! It made for some interesting programming though.

- A Hilton