[photran-dev] Eclipse UI, Accessibility Guidelines

[Jeffrey Overbey <overbey2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abhishek,

These are kind of long, but here are a couple of documents you should
become familiar with, since you're doing UI design.

(1) The Eclipse UI Guidelines describe, in excruciating detail, the
conventions for designing user interfaces in Eclipse.  Photran follows
them, for the most part.  The document itself is really long, but
there is a nice summary list of all the guidelines at the end.  I'd
suggest that you read through the checklist and refer to the body only
for the items that are relevant to you.

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Contents.html

(2) This article gives some guidelines for accessibility in Eclipse
applications, i.e., how to make an Eclipse application accessible to
people with disabilities.  This includes making it navigable without a
mouse, how to design user interfaces that support screen readers, and
making sure it supports large fonts and high contrast color schemes.

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Accessibility351/index.html

FWIW, application supplied to the US government must meet a set of
accessibility guidelines called "Section 508" --
http://www.section508.gov/

Jeff

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