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August 2006
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How I work in Windows and the Delphi IDE
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– Recently, I was asked how I work with a computer, being a blind person. The concrete question was: "How do you work with code?". Well, here's how things are! read more
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How I work in Windows and the Delphi IDE
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– Recently, I was asked how I work with a computer, being a blind person. The concrete question was: “How do you work with code?”. Well, here’s how things are!
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Installer for JBuilder and StarTeam is inaccessible
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– I just hit a real roadblock that I wanted to mention here, because these are also accessibility-related issues one will definitely encounter. This particular roadblock has to do with the Borland StarTeam installation tool. InstallAnywhere is a JAVA based installation program that, although it runs ...
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Installer for JBuilder and StarTeam is inaccessible
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– I just hit a real roadblock that inspired me to create a new category, because these are also accessibility-related issues one will definitely encounter. This particular roadblock has to do with the Borland StarTeam installation tool. InstallAnywhere is a JAVA based installation program that, ...
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Borland brings back the Turbo line of products!
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– Reading this interview brought back some nostalgic feelings. I started programming with Turbo Pascal 3.0, which ran on a Commodore 128D with CP/M 3.0+. When I moved to a PC, I stayed faithful to Turbo Pascal until it was replaced by Delphi. Seeing now that the Turbo line of products is coming back ...
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Borland brings back the Turbo line of products!
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– Reading this interview brought back some nostalgic feelings. I started programming with Turbo Pascal 3.0, which ran on a Commodore 128D with CP/M 3.0+. When I moved to a PC, I stayed faithful to Turbo Pascal until it was replaced by Delphi. Seeing now that the Turbo line of products is coming back ...
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How to design a form when you’re blind
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– I just recently ran into a rather embarrassing problem while designing a form, so I thought I’d blog about how to create a form as a blind developer.
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How to design a Form when you're blind
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– I just recently ran into a rather embarrassing problem while designing a form, so I thought I'd blog about how to create a form as a blind developer. read more
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Accessibility is helping with Quality Assurance
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– During the August 3, 2006 edition of the Delphi Hour, Nick Hodges interviewed Chris Pattinson, QA Manager at “DevCo”. During that interview, Chris mentioned that new accessibility features Steve Trefethen has put into the next version of BDS, is actually helping the team automate certain ...
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4
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– I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.0.4. According to the official announcement, this release fixes over 60 bugs, some of them critical security holes. As I am convinced that only prudent application of patches in a timely manner is the best wa to fight attack, I’ve decided to go ahead ...
July 2006
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What does “Accessible PDF” mean?
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– My posting about Alois Schmid’s ECO book being a fully accessible PDF file has brought up some questions about what accessibility in Adobe PDF files means for a blind user. So I’ve decided to devote a blog post to it. Let me start with a bit of history. When PDF experienced its first ...
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Alois Schmid’s ECO e-book is a fully accessible PDF!
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– I just visited ECO Space in search of a starting point for evaluating whether the ECO implementation in BDS is in any way accessible to screen reader users. Never having done anything with ECO before, I asked Daniel, and he recommended I look there. I opened the German version of the ECO Book. The ...
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Controversy about the Tool Palette
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– When reading the newsgroups, especially delphi.non-technical, almost everyone who transitions from Delphi 5, 6, or 7 to Borland Developer Studio 2006, complains about the new Tool Palette. Granted, it looks dramatically different than the older tabbed toolbar style of component palette, but Delphi 1 ...
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Borland Developer Studio brings back Accessibility
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– That’s right! For quite a number of years, Borland Delphi was not very accessible to blind programmers using screen readers. The main problem was the use of the ActionBand component to display the menu and toolbar system. This does not conform to Windows standards and is therefore hard to use ...
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All good things need three tries
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– There is a saying in Germany: Aller guten Dinge sind drei. This basically means that all good things need three attempts before they’re really good. This blog certainly had its share of tries. 1. First, I thought about setting up a blog at MSN Spaces, but that site, although generally ...
