I agree with the post below. If you really want to see how PC Suite works,
or doesn't work, with Window-Eyes, you don't need a Nokia phone connected.
You should be able to determine why the various controls in the program
can't be accessed by installing it and trying to navigate the user
interface.
Gary King
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <[email protected]>
To: "Stephen Clower" <[email protected]>; "chris hallsworth"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Christo de Klerk" <[email protected]>; "gwmicro"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Could someone from GW Micro shed some light on this, please?
Just for your info. Far as I can see, you don't need a Nokia phone, to
have the PC Suite installed. It is quite easily downloadable from the net,
and it installs without any Nokia phone connected. You even should be able
to move around most of the features, without ever being close to a Nokia
phone. Soon as you install the software, and open it the first time, you
see the trouble. WE goes more or less silent. If you have the hour to look
at it, I strongly recommend you try installing the suite, for just a
moment, and see what you can get from it.
Another question, which might seem silly, but then you know how little I
understood your reply:
Since you seem to be aware the problem, and I get it has something to do
with WE expecting certain behavior from MSAA, which it does not get, then
a natural question would be: Is there a chance - in later versions - to
have WE holding features to switch between the two different approaches
you mentioned? That it normally dos what it is doing as per date, but then
also have a chance (by a hotkey or something), to switch to the other
'mode'?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Clower" <[email protected]>
To: "chris hallsworth" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Christo de Klerk" <[email protected]>; "gwmicro"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Could someone from GW Micro shed some light on this, please?
Greetings,
Mirror hooks have nothing whatsoever to do with the issue being
described. The problem essentially is that many applications do not
implement MSAA correctly. Therefore, on the programming side of things,
we assume all programs are guilty until proven innocent. Other products
do not take this approach. Sometimes it's good, but at others it can be
disastrous. QT-based software falls under the guilty category, at least
for now.
I wrote the QT Support app to hook into the MSAA support which was made
available in the accessible QT widgets. As QT development has been
more-or-less stagnant for the past few years, the approach I created
worked well for the majority of QT-based software. I can't say what the
issue is with PC Suite as 1) I don't have this program and 2) nobody here
owns a Nokia phone with which to test.
Just to be clear on the matter, I, personally, have been the developer of
QT Support. It began as my own project prior to my employment with GW
Micro, and it is still an after-hours endeavor. If someone has a Nokia
phone they don't want and would like me to find out why precisely PC
Suite is having issues with QT Support, then by all means contact me off
list to make arrangements. Otherwise, I will update the app when ample
time is available for me to do so.
Regards,
Steve
On 8/3/2011 1:53 PM, chris hallsworth wrote:
I wonder if the mirror Driver/Video Intercept has anything to do with
this? NVDA uses display hooks to communicate with applications directly
writing to the screen, rather than mirror drivers or video interception.
Chris Hallsworth
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On 03/08/2011 18:31, Christo de Klerk wrote:
Hello
Some time ago I reported that Window-Eyes 7.5 broke the accessibility
of
Nokia PC Suite 7 and made it unusable. Steve Clower went to a lot of
trouble to try and help, updating the QT Support app and sending me new
versions to try, but we never got PC Suite working again.
Now yesterday, just for the hell of it, I tried the free opposition,
NVDA, and it worked perfectly with PC Suite, no accessibility issues at
all.
Yesterday I installed an application called Tapin Radio on my Netbook.
Nothing spoke, but it looked like an application built with QT Widgets,
so I installed the QT Support app and it now works perfectly. Again,
this program worked with NVDA out of the box, no accessibility issues.
My question now is: Why does Window-Eyes have trouble with these issues
and at least for Tapin radio need QT Support for it to work, while both
work perfectly with the free screen reader? One would have expected the
free program to have issues, not the commercial one. Surely GW Micro is
missing something here. I think this is more than a little strange.
When
I want to use PC Suite, I have to stop Window-Eyes and then use a
freebee to access PC Suite. That is a crazy situation. Is there some
explanation for this?
I honestly hope this is something GW Micro will attend to. Surely the
commercial program should be at least as good as the free one and then
a
whole lot better.
Kind regards
Christo
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