[macvoiceover] Re: Patching software
- From: A-Pro Studio <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 22:06:59 +0200
Hi,
This sounds like a great work-around for certain situations.....
Will this work for apps like MOTU Digital Performer and the line of
products from Native Instruments? These are absolutely not accessable
at all, the windows are blank.....
Take care,
John André
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On 3. mai. 2007, at 21:54, Greg Kearney wrote:
Some of you may recall discussions a while back here about my work
at taking existing programs and adding VoiceOver accessibility to
them. I was able to do this to Skype and a program called
iStopMotion. (Used to make stop motion animations.)
The problem was I didn't feel right about giving out my modified
versions as these are commercial programs. Now however I have found
software that lets me make patch files that will modify and make a
copy of the program. There are still issues here as I still must
copy parts of the program, called nib files, for this to work.
My first attempt, trying to make a patch application for Skype
resulted in failure as the new program failed to launch when the
patch was applied. However iStopMotion can be patched and that
seems to work well. What you do is to point the patch application
at the original file and then run it you get back an application
called in this case iStopMotion_VO which will have accessible
controls where none existed in the original program.
It should be stressed that this is not a panacea for accessibility
issues. But for some Cocoa based program where the authors simply
forgot to put in the accessibility tag in the interface it does work.
Greg Kearney
gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
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