Re: [Bug-XBoard] Accessibilty request.

[H.G. Muller]

If there is no screen reader to read out the text of the currently 
selected dialog item, and no way to navigate between the items though 
keystrokes, an application is basically useless to visually impaired 
people. I don't know how much of that the Gtkosx integration provides. I 
guess it would in theory be possible to associate an event handler with 
every dialog item, which is called when the item receives focus. This 
could send the name of the item to some speech synthesizer, and remember 
the item. A key event handler could intercept the keystrokes intended 
for navigation, and then request the next or previous item to receive focus.

If we do this ourselves we would have to create a lot of infrastructure 
for this. But because we do actually have an extra 'layer' between GTK 
and the XBoard 'business logic' in the form of the generic dialog 
creator, it would be possible to put the required infrastructure in the 
latter, so it automatically works for all dialogs.

Joshua Pettus schreef op 1/15/2015 om 4:26 PM:
> I was imagining such an extra program or perhaps just a command line switch that can 
> be triggered via a “shortcut".
>
> We can have xboard relay stuff to the terminal app which is Cocoa based. I 
> wonder how that would work...
>
> But I fear I am not really a programer.  Just a fairly knowledgable tinkerer.  
> Hence why there isn’t a cocoa version in the first place. Although VO aside 
> this hasn’t been much of a problem with OSX integration and has made 
> maintainability much easier.  I’m working on learning, but I don’t see getting 
> to C/C+ for a long time. Harm is really the person to talk to, If he isn’t too 
> busy.  But he doesn’t have a mac.
>
> Josh
>
> > On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Gabriele Battaglia <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Joshua Pettus, alle 16:05 del 15/01/2015, digitò:
> > > Perhaps there is some kind of signal from the OS, unfortunately without 
> > > gtkmacintegration’s help, there is no way to detect if VO is running.
> > Oh, sorry for that.
> > And provide a switch to launch the app with?
> > Maybe just blind people could launch the app with a special swithcer into a 
> > command line, or they maybe set up a checkbox within options.
> > Or You maybe start a new, small project called XBoard4 Blinds or accessible 
> > XBoard, with just a little graphics on it that's provide a simple way to 
> > comunicate, in terminal style, with UCI and WB engine.
> > That's a bit out of your duty, I'm aware of it, but it could be exciting too, 
> > surely a new experience for you coders, why not?
> > Gabriel.
>
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