[nvda] A Chance to Make E-sword More Accessible - FWD:

The question of e-sword's accessibility came up on an e-sword list and we may have achance to get some feedback to the e-sword developer. I know that at least one other lister on this list mentoned using e-sword with nvda and it would be very helpful to get their feedback. I will forward any responsse to the e-sword accessiblity list.
i have included my notes and the original post to the e-sword accessibiluty list below.
Comments from the nvda developers wold also be helpful. e-sword is fre and can be downloaded from 

www.e-sword.net
It is the most rpowrful and resource-rich free bible program out there and if we could get it to be more accessible it would be awesome! 

Thanks much.
Doris

forwarded mesage:
1. Book, chapter and verse numbers cannot be hidden wich is very distracting for speech users. (screenreader users relying on speech output)
2. Focus issues with some of the dialogs, i.e dearch dialogues or scripturememorization dialogs that cannot be tabbed back to when they lose focus
3. the version tabs for bibles, commentaries and dictionaries do not act like normal page tab controls in that they cannot be moved thru with ctrl+tab and arrowing across them with the arrow keys puts focus into the read only edit upon each arrow movement rather than moving across the tabs and only moving into the text when the tab key is hit.
4. Dictionary resources are difficult to navigate and I have done very little with this thus far as i have just begun to try and use these. I cannot tab to the list of entries for the Thompson Chain reference for example but need to use my mouse emulation to click them.
5. Right mouse click options should be available for keyboard access, i.e. use of the application key. I know there is a jaws script for this but not all screenaders are scriptable and I also find the script somewhat unreliable.
I use e-sword iith each of the resource widnows maximized and use e-sword's native keyboard shortcuts to switch between views. I will forward this post to the nvda user list, nvdabeing a free and open source screenreader for windows. i will forward any responses I get to this list. Can you access email during the conference? 

Thanks much for picking this up.

Doris



At 07:06 AM 1/25/2008 +0000, you wrote:


Doris wrote:
> You mentioned the other day that you are going to see Mr.Rick at some conference. 

Bibletech 2008 today and tomorrow (friday and saturday)

>Could you ask him about fixing some of the accessibility issues?

Can you give me a list of what you think the most critical issues are?

> How many users do you have on the accessibility list by now?

40
> Do you know if some are on there who could offer constructive suggestions that might help make e-sword more accessible? 

No.

Can we movbe this to the e-Sword_accessibility list
( <mailto:eSword-Accessibility%40yahoogroups.com>eSword-Accessibility@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ) 

xan

jonathon
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