I think scripting or other screenreader modifications are going to be
our best bett. I've never quite understood this mentality by these
developers. So they can do something that makes their program available
to as wide of an audience as humanly possible, but other stuff is higher
on the roadmap??
WTF? Why on earth would they not want to make their program as usable
to as many people as possible? They look at usability of the program as
a feature. Also, adding labels to these controls is not an impossible
thing. They make it sound as if we're asking for the moon and the stars
or something. Sheesh. i know we're not their first priority and i know
we're a very small group of people, but if they make excuses like this
it shows a real lack of a commitment to accessibility, which is really sad.
On 9/9/2016 6:03 PM, bj colt via Talk wrote:
Hi list,
Below is the responce I recieved from Customer support of oe2. I think they are
saying it will take a long, long, time for it to be made accessible for us.
We are aware that OE Classic has issues with screen-readers for certain
controls. To avoid technical explanation, we are aware that these controls
need a Accessible Name which is something what is built into Windows (more
recent versions such as Windows Vista or more recent) but unfortunately,
they are fairly recent and are not implemented to the level of all Windows
controls which OE Classic uses. So we have to add support for this name in
controls - there are a few methods to do this and we examined them for a
while.
For now, this is in To-Do list. As we are fairly small team, it will take a
while (possibly even a good while) before we start addressing these issues.
We have been testing it with NVDA and we found that some controls behave
really poorly, while others behaved surprisingly well (mostly buttons and
checkboxes). I have added you to the notification list so when we make more
progress toward that goal I will notify you - but it will be a while before
that happens.
best regards,
Zvonko Tesic
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-----Original Message-----
From: bj colt
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 4:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: accessibility
[OEC VERSION] 2.51 (2016-07-20)
[ REGISTERED] No
[ WINDOWS] 7 / Server 2008 R2
Dear Customer Service,
I am a blind person, using a screen reading program called window-eyes. I
downloaded oe2 and found that the program lacked accessibility for my
program. The options menu would not read with the tab or shift tab keys.
~The focus didn't go to the next email when the email highlighted was
deleted.
The folder view was only accessible using the shift tab stroke.
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