I can actually see both sides on this one. Jim's corrrect when he says that you should use all the tools available to you and your screenreader, and then after that, contact the developers, or better yet, both you and the screenreader developers could do it. I'm sure the more people they have giving reports the better the data could be. But there is also something to be said for the regular user contacting the developers and not necessarily complaining, but simply saying, hey, my screenreader does this when I access this control, is there any way you could make things a little more standard? From what i understand, the library and all the views in it are pretty much html based now. so something is goofy between JAWS and the library for sure, it seems to have a problem accurately being able to read the necessary controls. So I think if both things happen, if both users and developers contact nullsoft about the issue maybe we could see a fix for this.
At 11:26 PM 4/23/2007, you wrote:
Why do this. If you are having a problem with it contact a scripter or your screen reader and let them contact nulsoft or fix it them selves. That is there job after all. Personally I feel complaining about accessibility should only be done after you have used all the tools your screen reader has to provide and still am not able to fix your problem. Then the screen reader makers need to provide more tools best approach or work together with said company to fix the problem. Or a combo a perfect example of a combo is skype. Where they have done some work to make skype more accessible and the scripter for skype has done a lot of work. -----Original Message----- From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Toews Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:40 PM To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Library Accessibility Look, I don't use the library, so I can't speak on this and I'd make a lousy spokesperson. But what I'd really and seriously suggest, since the library means a lot to a lot of people, is that someone who uses the library and who possesses a high degree of technical knowledge pull out all the stops in trying to contact, directly, a Winamp developer and try to work directly with them on this. It seems the developers know there is a problem, but beyond that don't seem to understand the situation. I'm sure they're getting used to being whined at about the library ... I'm not saying everyone's whining, I'm just saying that they need to be contacted directly by someone who can speak their language and not expect them to speak ours. bruce -- Bruce Toews Skype ID: o.canada E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: DogRiver@xxxxxxxx LiveJournal: http://brucetola.livejournal.com Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to: winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contact the list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.5.9/773 - Release Date: 4/22/2007 8:18 PM To post a message to the list, send it to winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send a message to:winamp4theblind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/winamp4theblind> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, orthe way the list is being run, do not post them to the list directly. Instead, please contactthe list owners at winamp4theblind-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx __________ NOD32 2213 (20070423) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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