Except don't try and contact the developer of Caliber for it won't do any good. He's already said that accessibility is a waste of his time, which should officially be a technology sin.
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Clower [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:42 AM To: Dave Bahr Cc: gw-info Subject: Re: QT applications Dave, Typically if the accessible widgets aren't improving access to a QT program, then they are using a custom control set which provides no accessibility data, the widget library isn't compatible with the version of QT used to build the app or, what is most probable, is that accessibility support has been disabled for the program. Unfortunately, the means by which QT implements accessibility severely limits what any screen reader can do. Essentially, if accessibility is disabled, our hands are tied as there is no fallback method to get any useful context about where you are in a QT app as there is with Win32 programs. In this case I recommend contacting the program's author directly and letting them know their program isn't accessible. Regards, Steve On 9/3/2012 6:04 PM, Dave Bahr wrote: > Hi list, > > I was wondering if anyone had any success accessing QT applications? I > have installed the QT-support App but have not had any luck with it. > When I start a QT application for the first time, I get the message > that the accessible widgets have not been installed, would I like to > install them now? I click yes but when the application is restarted > there is not anything except a Treeview with nothing in it. I'm > wondering if the QT-support app and the widgets are conflicting with > each other? This is a pity because there are some great open source > applications out there that use the QT framework and I would love to > experiment with them but they are not accessible. Does anyone have an > idea about how to troubleshoot this? Any suggestions are appreciated. > Also, I've noticed that the QT-support app has not been updated for a > while. Is this the reason some modern QT-based frameworks are not > working? Thanks, > > Dave C. Bahr > Facebook: Dave Bahr > Twitter: dcbahr > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your > message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. -- Stephen Clower Product support specialist & App Development GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
