[Rwp] O.T metaedit accessibility

[Justin]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if some of the technically minded people on this list can 
help me.

I'm compiling a sound effects library for commercial distribution and 
all the sound effects need to have embedded metadata so that customers 
can search more easily for the sounds they want. There is a free tool 
that sighted sound designers use called metaedit but it is completely 
inaccessible, as in you open it and with NVDA at least, neither tab nor 
object nav nor the cursor keys yield any feedbabck at all. this is the 
only free solution anyone seems to be aware of so, on the offchance that 
the devs might be receptive, I sent them a message via their contact 
form, the gist of which is that they want to know what screen readers 
need in order for something to be accessible. Being as I have no idea, I 
was hoping that someone on this list might be able to give me some 
pointers to pass on, or at least the link to some guidelines that I 
could forward.

Here's the response I received pasted below.

Thanks for any help,

Justin

Justin, can you explain how you would like to use the tool further? 
Perhaps there is a way that reading and writing using CSV files will 
work best. I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with systems that provide 
mechanisms for the blind to navigate applications. I had my first 
experience recently when conducting an audio forensics class for the FBI 
which included a blind audio engineer. The hex editor application we 
used for the class did not work well with her screen reading 
application. In that case we had to come up with a way of exporting and 
importing to text files to work with her screen reader. This is what 
leads me to the thought of relying on CSV. If the resources were in 
place creating accessibility is something we would be more than happy to 
develop. Currently any work that is being done is being self funded by 
us and happens on an occasional basis.
Having said all of this, let me do some research into what it would take 
to make BWF MetaEdit more friendly to screen readers.
Thanks for the note and talk soon --
-Chris