[RWP] Reaper accessibility in general [was changing tempo in reaper.]

[Scott Chesworth]

Jamie, to my knowledge the VO API is the only way to talk to it, think
you're right.

Re your earlier points about Reaper having an equal starting point of
accessibility, I'd still say that the access is more consistent on the
Mac. The FX window for starters seems to be neater, with aplicable
labels being announced as soon as you land in an edit area, plus the
layout of that window in particular is more apparent for those who
care to learn such things with VO's navigation. Quite a few dialogs
behave more consistently too, there's less extraneous jabbering going
on when navigating down the table in bigger dialogs like preferences.
In any case, it all means nothing if nobody can figure out a way to
apply the ReaAccess setup to VO. Another slightly hazy possibility
might be to output to the system voice for announcements in the way
that the QuicKeys Logic scripts do that are making the rounds at the
moment, but in my experience that method turns out to be clunky at
best for the end user.

Scott

On 5/24/10, James Teh <jamie at jantrid.net> wrote:
> On 25/05/2010 8:28 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>> I have no idea if this is worth anything in the current circumstances,
>> but the developer of the Qwitter Twitter client developed a Python
>> module called Accessible Output. It is designed to communicate with a
>> screen reader, I think it supports JFW, Wineyes, NVDA, probably SA, and
>> if it can't find any screen reader it will speak using SAPI. Not sure
>> how Braille works.
> Braille works the same way in Accessible Output. ReaAccess already does
> this using its own code; i.e. it "speaks" to each of the different
> screen readers using the API provided by each screen reader. ReaAccess
> could in theory do the same thing for Braille. However, my point was
> that doing this means that any new screen reader has to be specifically
> supported, whereas using accessibility APIs allows for a standard
> implementation. Also, I think this is the only way on Mac, as I don't
> think there is a way to "speak" to VoiceOver, though I could well be wrong.
>
> Jamie
>
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