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MarcoMauri

Add accessibility options

Status: Declined

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I would suggest  to add some features to make it easier the use of Labview for people who could need it:

- Thicker wires

- Larger icons

- Larger fonts

- Dedicated color palettes

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Marco

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A-T-R
Member

Oh no...please not!

 

You are one of those "magnifier" guys, aren't you?

tst
Knight of NI Knight of NI
Knight of NI
I think my zoom suggestion covers most of this (excluding the color palettes).

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JackDunaway
Trusted Enthusiast

A:T:R wrote:

You are one of those "magnifier" guys, aren't you?


Maybe he is, and I'm going to be one day also. If adding this feature gives the LabVIEW community one more member like Ben Rayner, who has a history with LabVIEW as an enabling language, the investment will pay off many times over.

 

That being said... changing relative wire/font size provides a challenge that has no current solution: pixel spacing is important in LabVIEW. As an excercise, change your default Application Font to 24 and open a few BD's... you'll notice that things like property/invoke nodes and bundles/unbundle by name have wreaked havoc on your Block Diagrams (this is already a problem in multideveloper environments where different workstations have default font sizes of either 13, 15, or 17). In other words, this is a problem independent of accessibility, but finding a solution may provide a more accessible environment.

 

MarcoMauri, would tst's zoom suggestion be a viable replacement for the sizing issues? (I think zoom is the only way to solve the problem mentioned above. Force every environment to have a fixed font size so that relative sizing remains constant and nodes can properly align.)

MarcoMauri
Active Participant

Oh no...please not!

Microsoft Visual Studio has a web page about accessibility

Firefox has a web page about accessibility

Matlab has a web page about accessibilty

 

I simply suggested that doing something about accessibility also for Labview would be welcome by some users.

 

Maybe everything is needed is already there, and it would be enough to add a page in the manual, maybe not.

 

 

Darren
Proven Zealot
Status changed to: Declined

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Darren
Proven Zealot

Chris, I have absolutely no idea where to start on finding out that information. My best guess is your sales rep. Good luck!