I have been trying to get the developer of chirp to add some accessibility to the app (considering that those class objects are included in python, there shouldn't be an excuse not to). However, I have either been ignored (for the most part) or had one of the other users on that mailing list try to argue that we (as blind hams) are a too specialized population and too small to consider changing some interface elements just for us.
what we need to do is find every blind ham who are interested in being able to program their own radios and just barrage the list with the same request: "enable accessibility features". If they get enough list traffic with this one subject, it may make the developer realize that we are not an insignificant population. This basically means we need to find, contact and convince every blind ham (quite a few of us are mac users) and have them start this campaign. The only other way I can see to get him to do what we want is to throw some money at him, post proof to his list and request that he make the changes needed to allow us to use his software. These are just 2 suggestions and both have their strong points. Frankly, I am more than a little frustrated with software developers who are lazy and refuse to do something the right way. IMHO, the right way produces better results than the lazy way. -eric On May 2, 2014, at 6:58 AM, [email protected] wrote: > From: Buddy Brannan <[email protected]> > Date: May 02 07:16AM -0400 > Url: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/806ab3c740dda0f2 > > I can guarantee you that Chirp is *not* accessible with Voiceover. For that > matter, it can only be used with lots of mouse keys navigation under Windows, > and most easily with Window-Eyes, in my experience. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
