[Psi-Devel] Psi for the blind?

[Jesse Thompson]

Kevin Smith wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 3:35 PM, Jesse Thompson <jesse.thompson at doit.wisc.edu> wrote:
>> Is Psi designed to be accessible for blind people?
> 
> It's not something I've ever considered. I'm afraid I've no idea how
> screenreaders work, but I'm quite amenable to trying to improve the
> situation if you can give us some hints on how to do so :) Trolltech
> claim that Qt4 applications should work seamlessly with screen
> readers, so it should be possible.

Here are some videos produced by our accessibility team at UW Madison,
which will help show how visually impaired people use computers.

http://www.doit.wisc.edu/accessibility/video/


You might want to also take a look at creating a VPAT for Psi.
(Voluntary Product Accessibility Template)

Blank Form:
http://section508.nasa.gov/vpat3.htm

examples (Mozilla and Adobe):
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/vpat.html
http://www.adobe.com/resources/accessibility/tools/vpat/

I hope this helps!

Jesse
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