Good that you’d emailed busy cal support. Hopefully they’ll respond, and implement better accessibility. I’d tried the app a couple years ago, and I found the same thing, the actual calendar area wasn’t visible to VO at all. And when I went to switch back to what was iCal at the time, this was on Snow leopard, I found that it wouldn’t launch. Well, it would launch, but VO would say iCal has no Windows.So somehow, putting on busy cal, totally messed up iCal for some reason. Had to do a total reinstall of the OS at the time, to get it back. Before doing that however, I tried rebuilding the launch services data base with Onyx, this would fix it temporarily so I could use iCal again, but then later, it’d act up again. Don’t know why that happened. After that experience, and the inaccessibility of busy cal, don’t think I’ll be installing it again, until there are improvements in accessibility. Luckily that time, I’d just installed a trial version, so I wasn’t out nay money. . On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear BusyCal Support Team, > > I downloaded the trial of BusyCal for Mac. I absolutely love the features in > BusyCal, which are so sadly missing in the native OS X Calendar. > > However, unfortunately I haven't been able to use BusyCal properly. > > I use VoiceOver—Apple's built-in screen reader for OS X—to access my Mac. > Voiceover is a utility for people who are blind or have low vision. It reads > out information on the screen and allows users to control the Mac with the > keyboard. > > All the controls, preferences etcetera of BusyCal are accessible with > VoiceOver, but sadly the actual calendar part of the application—presumably > listing the days of the month and events etcetera—appears completely > inaccessible with VoiceOver. From a VoiceOver user's perspective, the > calendar part of the app is invisible. > > It would be fantastic if you could make your app accessible with VoiceOver. > Thankfully, Apple makes this much easier than one might expect, given the > support for VoiceOver it builds into the Mac. > > Apple provides an introduction for developers on accessibility in OS X, > including VoiceOver, at the following link: > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/OSXAXIntro/OSXAXintro.html > > Apple provides a general overview of VoiceOver for consumers here: > http://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/voiceover/ > > Additional information for developing apps that are accessible to VoiceOver > users can be found on the AppleVis website at: > http://www.applevis.com/information-app-developers > > I would gladly welcome any news from BusyMac if/when you improve its > accessibility so I can spread the word among the community of VoiceOver > users. Additionally, if there are any settings, configurations or the like > which you believe might assist VoiceOver users in accessing BusyCal please > let me know. > > Many thanks for your time and consideration. > > Kind regards, > Nic > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out.
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