[platform-help-dev] Accessibility - opening the Help System in a speakin

["Eduardo Angel" <eddie.angel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

One of our testers is testing for accessibility and he found a potential
problem: it is quite difficult for a visually impaired user to open the
WSDK documentation in a speaking browser such as IBM Home Page Reader
(HPR).
To open the Help System in a speaking browser, the Help System must already
be running; then the user opens the speaking browser at the URL at which
the Help System is running. The problem is that you cannot predict what the
start URL of the Help System is going to be, because the port changes from
run to run. Currently, the only way to get a starting URL is to start the
Help System in the "normal" way for our product (a batch file is called),
right-click on the window and open the properties, and copy the first part
of the URL (up to and including "/help") into HPR.

For a visually impaired user to perform the procedure above would be both
error prone and
time-consuming.

Is there a way for visually impaired users to be able to easily open the
documentation in a speaking browser of their choice?


Regards,

Eddie

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Eduardo Angel
Sun Certified Java Programmer
CICS User Technologies
IBM Hursley Laboratories
Hicom 24-5683
External Phone 01962 81 5683
e-mail: eddie.angel@xxxxxxxxxx
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