Hi Philip, Interesting. I'm glad to know you found a solution for this rather annoying problem with Jaws. Although, I personally am still against direct screen reader support. I think it is A, unnecessary, and B, a very bad idea for several reasons. People who are asking for it aren't necessarily programmers and don't really have a clue what they are asking for. It is like a little kid who wants to eat an entire bag of candy. He/she wants it not fully realising by eating that bag of candy it will make them sick and damage their teeth. Same deal with adding screen reader support. People want it not realising or particularly caring if doing so is in the best intrest of their game products or not.
Cheers! On 1/20/11, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been opposed to adding screen reader support into BGT since the very > beginning, though I am beginning to change my mind. The primary reason for > my not wanting to do it has been the fact that Jaws steals a large number of > keys from DirectInput, making it very hard to play games if Jaws is loaded > and not in sleep mode. However, I have just managed to solve this problem. > > Jaws uses what is known as a low level, system wide keyboard hook which > basically monitors the state of the keyboard device and decides whether > input should be allowed through so that other applications can see it. Jaws, > as we all know, decides that a lot of keys should not be let through such as > the arrows, escape and a whole bunch of others. So what I have done is to > set up a low level keyboard hook of my own, though a process specific hook > rather than a global one. Why? Because process specific hooks always take > priority over global ones, which means that I can simply tell my keyboard > hook to allow everything through... And there you have it. Jaws and > DirectInput are now the best of friends. > > I am going to enable this as an option in BGT, because even though I tell > everything to go straight through it does block certain Jaws specific > keystrokes from being processed while you are in the window, almost as > though Jaws had been in sleep mode though it technically is not. In other > words, this will enable me to add support for Jaws speech output while > preventing Jaws from messing about with the keyboard input. > > Just some information I figured I would share with you. > > Kind regards, > > Philip Bennefall > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
