[Rwp] increased Reaper accessibility for reaper Re: My! Lord! am I impressed!

[Rusty Perez]

Hi James,
Who do we need to lobby to encourage changes which will fix the MSAA
issues in Reaper to improve our accessibility experience?

I didn't really understand the discussion of  WDL wingui, but it seems
that there were improvements made on the Mac side which could be
beneficial in Windows if implemented?

I'm willing to write emails or file bug reports or post on lists but
just need to know what improvements are needed.

thanks!
rusty


On 4/8/15, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> On 9/04/2015 10:25 AM, Victor Tsaran via RWP wrote:
>> If I remember correctly, Reaper developers wrote an accessibility wrapper
>> at some point and this is why the Reaper ui is a bit more usable with
>> VoiceOver.
> They did. It's part of WDL wingui/virtwnd. They also wrote an
> accessibility wrapper using MSAA for Windows. The problem is that the
> Windows implementation is buggy/deficient, partly due to MSAA and partly
> due to bugs in their implementation. I can get at all of the stuff
> exposed on the Mac with NVDA object navigation in Windows, but only by
> hacking NVDA somewhat and I can't adjust those parameters. I understand
> why this is the case and I can confirm it looking at the code. I might
> have a chance of fixing it, but ideally, I'd need a sample WDL wingui
> application.
>
> The other problem of course is that most Windows screen readers (other
> than NVDA and Narrator) don't really support the object navigation
> paradigm, so its usefulness is limited.
>
> Jamie
>
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