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<title>Creating Accessible Forms</title>
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<h2>Creating Accessible Forms</h2>
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<p><small><a href="#seealso">See Also</a></small></p>
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<p>To ensure that your GUI forms and the components contained within
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them meet accessibility requirements, you can adjust their accessibility
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properties. A GUI is considered accessible when it works with various
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assistive technologies, such as screen readers. </p>
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<p>The following properties can be edited to aid accessibility: </p>
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<li><b>Accessible Name.</b> Sets the name for the component.
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By default, the name is set to the component's text property value. </li>
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<li><b>Accessible Description.</b> Sets the description for the component.</li>
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<li> <b>Accessible Parent.</b> Sets the name of the accessible parent
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<p><b>To edit a form or component's accessibility properties:</b></p>
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<li> In the Inspector window, select the form or component whose accessibility
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properties you want to modify. </li>
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<li> In the Properties window, click the Properties tab and scroll down
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to the Accessibility properties. </li>
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<li>Click the ellipsis (...) button to open the Property Editor and then enter
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the desired value. Alternately, you can click the current property value to
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select it and enter a new value.
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<p>The IDE stores the updated accessibility information in the selected component.
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<dt><a name="seealso">See Also</a></dt>
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<dd><a href="gui_creatingforms.html">Creating a New Form</a></dd>
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<dd><a href="gui_addcomponent.html">Adding a Component to a Form</a></dd>
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<dd><a href="layout_managers/gui_settinglayout.html">Setting the Layout Manager</a></dd>
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