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Application with Accessibility for Blind People

I am about to start developing an application, which requires accessibility for blind people. It will be a front-end to google calendar for blind people. Can I do this in C#? Does .NET provide accessibility? I want to read the information from screen readers(e.g. JAWS), a software that uses voice to interpret what is written on the screen. Any good suggestions from anyone on where to start? I've only found stuff about web accessibility...

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gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties

gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties(1)			   User Commands			gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties(1)

NAME

       gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties - set your keyboard accessibility preferences

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       The Keyboard accessibility preference tool enables you to set the keyboard accessibility preferences. The Keyboard accessibility preference
       tool is also known as AccessX.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5).

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching the keyboard accessibility preference tool

       example% gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-accessibiExecutableaforpKeyboardsaccessibility preferences tool

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	     ATTRIBUTE VALUE	    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-desktop-preferences |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			    |
       +-----------------------------+------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Preference Tools Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       accessx(1), gnome-control-center(1), gnome-keyboard-properties(1), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    2 Oct 2003				gnome-accessibility-keyboard-properties(1)

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