[brailleblaster] Re: Screen readers broken with latest build
- From: Brandon Roller <brandon.r.roller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:13:15 -0400
I am not very familiar with screen readers, so these suggestions may not
work at all.
Are there configuration settings that could be changed to make them read by
word or by sentence?
Or would it be possible to write scripts so that a screenreader behaves a
certain way when BB is run?
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Vic.****
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> I'm not sure what we can do about the screen reader issues. WE understand
> the problem but it really is between SWT's accessibility interface and the
> screen readers. We can at some point go back to putting in hard new-line
> characters, which is what made it work for a while, but that really isn't a
> good solution in my opinion.****
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> Keith****
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> Keith Creasy****
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> Software Developer****
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> American Printing House for the Blind****
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> KCreasy@xxxxxxx****
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> Phone: 502.895.2405****
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> Skype: keith537****
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> *From:* brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Brandon Roller
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:59 AM
> *To:* brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [brailleblaster] Re: Screen readers broken with latest build***
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> Vic,****
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> I made changes to the layout so that more document, such as your Acts file
> would open.****
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> BB should now open more varieties of document consistently.****
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> A trade-off at the moment is that there are screenreader issues with occur.
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> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Brandon and Keith,
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> NVDA and Orca are broken with the latest changes to BB. Now 100% of the
> time
> they read the entire paragraph when moving up or down with the arrow keys.
> NVDA was reading practically flawlessly before these latest updates.
> Ironically, W-E is working better now. The only problem it is having now is
> that it doesn't track the cursor when switching between views until it
> moves.
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> Best regards from Ohio,
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> Vic
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