That still doesn't help with the overall problem (or perhaps it might). The issue I have right now is that I would like to use chirp and can't. Its not the fault of either NVDA (screen reader for windows) or Voiceover (OS X screen reader). It appears to be a problem with the selected interface. I just tried chirp for win32 and all I got was a blank dialog and no access to any drop down menus (especially those that should work with the alt key in windows). OS X was a little better as I was able to at least access the main menus but couldn't select anything in the program itself.
This makes chirp a not very useful tool for me (or the thousands of other blind hams in the US).
what I would like to do is be able to program any supported radio without visual assistance from anyone else. Since I cannot currently do that, it makes me a bit less useful as a HAM on public service events. This also means that I am forced to wait until I can find a volunteer to help me with some tasks involving my radios. This I don't like at all.
anyway, enough of my rant. I do issue this challenge however. I challenge the Author to improve his product. make it accessible for the blind (that is easy to do from a certain point of view). It might be a lot harder for windows than for OS X.
I will give Vinux a try (again). ever since their primary developer left, it hasn't quite been the same (and some things got a bit more broken).
-eric
n7zzt
On Jul 3, 2013, at 8:52 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
Eric,
Download Vinux which is Linux for the Visually impaired from www.vinuxproject.org
It will boot from DVD or installed on USB stick or installed alongside windows on hard drive.
I use it all the time, or about 90% of the time, Windows about 10%.
Linux does everything and much easier than Windows.
73
David N1EA
On Jul 3, 2013 11:41 AM, "Dan Smith" <
dsmith@danplanet.com> wrote:
> the first one is solvable by adding some accessibility features
> (python has some and apple published the API for voiceover). I am not
> a coder, so I can't tell how difficult this will be.
The detail you're probably not aware of is that CHIRP uses a
cross-platform UI toolkit called GTK. This makes it invisible to screen
readers on both Windows and MacOS, which only support reading for their
native widgets. It works just fine on Linux, of course, but that
doesn't help you.
Unfortunately, there is not much we can do for you here. It's not
feasible to have a volunteer-run application project that supports all
three platforms' UI toolkits natively, and especially one that moves at
the speed that CHIRP does.
--
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS
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