Ticket #111 (new enhancement)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

Visualizing object hierarchy in treeview

Reported by: tvalusek Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: GUI Version: development
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Description

Since NVDA is free software, it can be used as a helper tool for sighted developers for making accessible apps. I think it would be very useful for them to see at a glance what is exposed to blind computer user, and since object hierarchy is a tree, it should be presented as a tree. The same applies to virtual buffers.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by mdcurran

There are currently a few free tools available for sighted developers to see and navigate the accessibility hyerarchy of an application. Acc Explorer which comes with the MSAA tools from Microsoft, and Accessibility Probe (which apart from MSAA also supports IAccessible2) from www.eclipse.org/actf.
Sighted developers could also use object navigation, but while using the 'display' synth driver.
My opinion is that NVDA doesn't really need this built in, although I'm happy to hear other people's opinions on this before we think of closing it.

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by tvalusek

NVDA can use direct API access as well, thus modifying what a blind user can experience.

comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by Bernd

  • Version set to trunk

This feature could be interesting for users who can see a litle bit so that they would unterstand the hirachical order better.

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