Creating Accessible Forms

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To ensure that your GUI forms and the components contained within them meet accessibility requirements, you can adjust their accessibility properties. A GUI is considered accessible when it works with various assistive technologies, such as screen readers.

The following properties can be edited to aid accessibility:

To edit a form or component's accessibility properties:

  1. In the Inspector window, select the form or component whose accessibility properties you want to modify.
  2. In the Properties window, click the Properties tab and scroll down to the Accessibility properties.
  3. Click the ellipsis (...) button to open the Property Editor and then enter the desired value. Alternately, you can click the current property value to select it and enter a new value.

    The IDE stores the updated accessibility information in the selected component.

See Also
Creating a New Form
Adding a Component to a Form
Setting the Layout Manager

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