[Rwp] Slightly OT but maybe GREAT news about accessability

Rusty Perez rustys.lists at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 16:55:32 EDT 2015


Yes, I have a very good example of this.
I purchased a BeatBuddy last year. This is a guitar pedal style drum
machine. The content managing software is completely inaccessible. It
was developed in QT which I understand has accessibility features, but
they were totally ignored. So I'm hoping that this solution might
help.

To be honest, the description makes it sound as though this could be
dangerous technology in the hands of the right people, but I'm glad it
can help us.

Anyway, we'll see!
Rusty


On 3/17/15, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> I heard about this over on midimag.
>
> We'll have to see how it goes.
>
> The issue mostly these days is that developer tools that can write cross
> platform
> ie, both mac and windows can be made a lot more accessible but no dev
> wants to code their stuff twice.
>
> So these third party dev tools don't do it in a way which promotes the
> accessibility
> so we're left screen-scraping.
> instead of having programming objects to get hold of.
>
> So I'm just really curious how this thing is gonna work to get hold of
> information when there are no programatical
> objects exposed,
> well, you know someplace along the line.
> that pretty picture turns in to an instruction set, and issues a command,
> so maybe the found a way.
>
>
>
>
> On 3/17/2015 2:58 PM, Jim Snowbarger via RWP wrote:
>> Rusty,
>> I haven't heard of this.  But, take the plunge, and let us know if your
>> system still works afterword.  <grin>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Rusty Perez
>> via RWP
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:45 PM
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>> Subject: [Rwp] Slightly OT but maybe GREAT news about accessability
>>
>> Following is a link to a demonstration of a program called AT Prime which
>> calls itself an accessability optimizer for windows.
>> www.blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=12436
>>
>> It sounds really intriguing basically digging deep in to windows to pull
>> information normally unavailable to windows screen readers.
>> I'm hoping it will open up a world of unaccessible plugins ETC.
>>
>> rusty
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