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by LexTheSame
Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:06 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Mudlet & screenreaders
Replies: 40
Views: 59343

Re: Mudlet & screenreaders

It should be fixed on the NVDA end then. If you can post a link to mudlet build with IA2 implementation which shows broken behavior to bug tracker, devs will look at it and hopefully find the cause. That's open source colaboration! Also, did you try to test it with demo of commercial screen reader l...
by LexTheSame
Tue Sep 17, 2013 3:04 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Mudlet & screenreaders
Replies: 40
Views: 59343

Re: Mudlet & screenreaders

I'd say the possibility that NVDA devs accept this request is very unlikely. It was stated a bunch of times that NVDA controller API is not mean to be a full-fledged speech interface and never will be so. Application developers should utilize accessibility interfaces (such as IAccessible2 or UIAutom...
by LexTheSame
Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:09 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Mudlet & screenreaders
Replies: 40
Views: 59343

Re: Mudlet & screenreaders

2. There is no standard control for text streams. Consequently, I can't rely an screen reader support and have to make my own as far as the text stream console is concerned. You're right. However most screen readers have an option to automatically read the newly arrived text on the screen. That's h...
by LexTheSame
Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:19 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Mudlet & screenreaders
Replies: 40
Views: 59343

Re: Mudlet & screenreaders

Qt isn't used for the user interface in the screen reader edition because Qt's accessibility support was nowhere near good enough. Qt5 claims to have better support, but documentation was still missing the last time I had a look. So what is being used: I use the windows C API to get better screen r...
by LexTheSame
Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:30 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Mudlet & screenreaders
Replies: 40
Views: 59343

Re: Mudlet & screenreaders

Hi, I would like to raise back this topic. I am myself a blind mud player and software developer, using both windows and mac platforms to do my job. I was very pleased to see mudlet authors being interested in making this product accessible to screen readers. However, the qt-baset nature together wi...