can you change installers? if so folks out here should be able to guide you to ones that are accessible, I know one is called inno I can take a look through some files for other names if you would like, but someone out here should have them. take care inthane proprietor, The Grab Bag, for blind computer users and programmers http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!" www.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Agemtree "merchants in fine facetted and cabochon gemstones" www.agemtree.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Andreas Stefik To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Sodbeans update Thanks, Elf, I appreciate it. It's definitely a huge amount of working trying to make an application as complex as a development environment accessible. And of course, we have spent eons of time getting our custom virtual machine and the GUI to be accessible, yet then we run into these weird issues with things like the installer, which makes it hard, which we don't have much control over, but this makes it difficult for folks to even download and test it! It is both a frustrating, fun, and complicated project, to be sure. And we've made massive progress lately, which is nice. Stefik On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:16 PM, The Elf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: afraid I can't assist you in this, but I did want to thank you for your continued efforts in making applications accessible for those of us who need them, smile good luck! inthaneelf proprietor, The Grab Bag, for blind computer users and programmers http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!" www.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Agemtree "merchants in fine facetted and cabochon gemstones" www.agemtree.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Andreas Stefik To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; sodbeans-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:32 PM Subject: Sodbeans update Hello everyone, I wanted to send an update to the blind mailing list and sodbeans lists to let everyone know where the sodbeans project, the project to substantially overhaul accessibility in the NetBeans environment, is at. First, there are currently 2 active team members and one new one was just added, as southern illinois university edwardsville has hired a graduate student to work on the project for a half time research appointment. This is excellent news, as the more person power we have right now the better. Second, as part of an independent study, a student at Central Washington University has been hard at work on the guts of the virtual machine (and so have I). We have made major progress on both the design of the programming language, the implementation, and the integration of both into NetBeans. A large number of op-codes in our custom virtual machine are complete and we are working hard to complete the rest of the codes in our current design. Third, as of today, I have completed the auditory mapping utilities between VM op-codes and sound. Basically, this is the functionality that allows high quality audio to be output when you step over, or back, in a piece of executing code. In other words, our debugger is finally learning to talk rather eloquently about what your code is doing. Finally, we have made a ton of progress and will probably have the most important, and major, parts of our virtual machine and sound libraries up and running within a few months, although there are some pieces for which we could use some more person power. By far the most helpful contribution we could use right now would be for someone to work on an open-source JNI wrapper for VoiceOver on macintosh. If anyone has some experience with mac programming and wants to contribute; get in touch. Anyway, I hope everyone in the community is doing well, Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Edwardsville