A11YShortly
A11Y testing
Accessibility (A11Y) of NetBeans IDE should be mainly tested by the a11y-tester tool available as a binary at http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/images/6/6f/Org-netbeans-modules-a11y.nbm
How to perform NetBeans A11Y testing - easy tutorial
Install a11y-tester plugin:
- start NetBeans
- select main menu Tools|Plugins
- choose Settings tab and press Add button
- type http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/images/e/e5/Updates.xml in the URL field
- confirm the dialog and the Accessibility plugin appears in the Available Plugins tab
- after the plugin is installed it forces restart of IDE
- after the IDE restart the accessibility tester's icon (
wheelchair icon) appears in toolbar
Start a11y-tester tool:
- click on the wheelchair icon in toolbar
- push Run test button in the tester's window
- invoke Ctrl+F11 to test currently focused window (undock docked window if necessary)
Evaluate results:
- output is by default in the console (all categories in output should contain "none" which means that no conflict is detected)
- if a category in the output is not "none" then evaluate such a conflict and if you consider it as a bug then report it with A11Y keyword to netbeans bugzilla
