Hi Chris. It is indeed, very very sad. -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad via Talk Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 3:30 PM To: bj colt; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: new oe program responce from them
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 > > --------------------------------- > A perfect replacement for Outlook Express and Windows (Live) Mail: > www.oeclassic.com > > yEnc and multipart decoder for Outlook Express newsgroups at: > www.ydecode.com > > Avoid viruses, spam and learn all Outlook Express secrets at: > www.outlookexpresstips.com > --------------------------------- > > -----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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rascal0826%40v erizon.net. > For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/skyt%40shaw.ca . For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
