Dear Listers,
I need to work in a multilingual environment from time to time. Under
Windows latform, I used to use an electronic dictionary called
Ultralingua. It worked ok-ish if I used Jaws cursor to read the
results of a particular search. Ultralingua has its Macintosh version
which I have downloaded in order to test drive it. Unfortunately, it
seems to be quite inaccessible. What happens is that although I can
access the combo box where I type the word I'm looking for, the
results appear in a separate box underneath to which Voiceover does
not want to go. I can move the scrobar up and down using the voiceover
because the scrollbar is in the same box as the word search box. But
the results are annoyingly beyond my reach.
Do you know of any tricks I could try to be able to read the result
windows and still be able to move the vertical scrollbar up and down?
I've e-mailed Ultralingua with a gentle but detailed complaint
regarding the inaccessibility of their product. I haven't heard from
them yet. I had a constructive conversation with their top man once
when I complained about the problems under Windows which were then
caused by their having introduced skins into their product, and he
showed some positive attitude and a promise that they were going to
work on accesiblity. That was however a long time ago, and I haven't
heard from them since. So I wouldn't hold my breath especially that
their argument for not having looked at the accessibility was as it
often is the case centred around the size of their business and a lack
of resources.
With best wishes
Simon
- voiceover and ultraligua Simon Cavendish
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