Introduction to Accessibility Programming Guidelines for Carbon

Explains how to access-enable Carbon applications.

Who Should Read This Document

All Carbon application developers should read this document to learn how to make their applications accessible to users with disabilities. If you’re new to accessibility you should read Accessibility Programming Guide for OS X to get an overview of the Mac OS X accessibility architecture.

If you’re an assistive application developer, you don’t need to read this document. Instead, you should read Accessibility Programming Guide for OS X to become familiar with the Mac OS X accessibility architecture and then you should read Accessibility Reference for Assistive Applications .

Organization of This Document

This document has the following chapters:

Accessibility and the Carbon Framework describes how Carbon implements accessibility and provides support for access-enabling Carbon applications.

Making a Standard Carbon Application Accessible describes the steps you follow to access-enable a Carbon application that uses only standard HIObjects.

Making a Semistandard Carbon Application Accessible describes additional steps you follow to access-enable a Carbon application that implements some custom subviews.

Making a Custom Carbon Application Accessible provides guidelines to help you access-enable a Carbon application that implements a custom view subsystem or implements its interface procedurally.

Revision History describes changes to this document.

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