A lot like notepad with tabs for several documents, which are also opened in the screenshot. At the bottom, one can see a slider with the title "Document position" for easy navigation. Most importantly the Menu consists of the entries: Document, Navigation, Speech, Window and Help.
How does it look to me:
It looks simple and functional. Seems to be optimized for screen reading as there is not a single icon or graphic.
What's the layout and do you think it works:
It's an older Windows layout with the menubar at the top, followed by the tab bar. Under that one, and covering something like 90% of the screen, is a notepad-like textarea and finally at the bottom is the slider.
Assuming the menu has submenus and it is not too difficult to navigate around there, I assume it works pretty well as it is as simple as it can get. Maybe the slider handling is difficult because I can not imagine how a blind person can ever click on the tiny position indicator. However, it probably has some keyboard shortcuts. But I can only imagine at this point.
I just tab to the slider and adjust it with the arrow keys, page up/down, etc. Same goes for many of the controls inside most apps. I don't have enough usable vision to use a mouse even a little bit.
Thanks for your answers, I've got some really great responses to this posting so far.
A lot like notepad with tabs for several documents, which are also opened in the screenshot. At the bottom, one can see a slider with the title "Document position" for easy navigation. Most importantly the Menu consists of the entries: Document, Navigation, Speech, Window and Help.
How does it look to me:
It looks simple and functional. Seems to be optimized for screen reading as there is not a single icon or graphic.
What's the layout and do you think it works:
It's an older Windows layout with the menubar at the top, followed by the tab bar. Under that one, and covering something like 90% of the screen, is a notepad-like textarea and finally at the bottom is the slider.
Assuming the menu has submenus and it is not too difficult to navigate around there, I assume it works pretty well as it is as simple as it can get. Maybe the slider handling is difficult because I can not imagine how a blind person can ever click on the tiny position indicator. However, it probably has some keyboard shortcuts. But I can only imagine at this point.