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Re: [platform-help-dev] Accessibility - opening the Help System in a speaking browser
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That's a great idea. In fact, I'd suggest going further than this: use the
support for defining a customized browser via the eclipse preferences, and
set the command to be <full_path_to>/hpr.exe. This will always launch help
inside home page reader.
-Dorian
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Another workaround is to set your Eclipse preferences to use the "Default
System Browser" (assuming that the speaking browser is the default browser
on your system). This works well with IBM Home Page Reader 3.02.
Dan
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The workaround for this in 2.1 would be to run the help system at a fixed
port (called as an infocenter), preferably on the loopback adapter
(127.0.0.1). The problem there is that the port must be free.
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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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Sun Certified Java Programmer
CICS User Technologies
IBM Hursley Laboratories
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