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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Improving accessibility in Rockbox UtilityRe: Improving accessibility in Rockbox Utility
From: Dominik Riebeling <dominik.riebeling_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:42:47 +0200 Hi Christian, sorry for replying that late -- I was out for the weekend ... On 10/6/07, Christian Schoepplein <chris_at_schoeppi.net> wrote: > I'm also a blind rockbox user and I'd like to help improving the > accessibility of the software. I use a very old rockbox version on > my IAudio but I can change my setup to test things. Just give a > short overview what I should test, install and so on, I'd need to know a > bit more details to know what needs to be tested. Currently I know that Rockbox Utility speaks. I tried pointing at some widgets and checked if the voice output was matching. But as I have no real idea about how working with the software usually works for a blind person I also don't know if this is sufficient. As a short overview: Rockbox Utility uses tabs for displaying the tasks -- the first tab holds the "Complete Install" and "Small Install" buttons which do a mostly automatic install. The second tab holds the separated install options, and so on. All items should be reachable using the tab button. We know that there are issues with reading the tabs titles. An idea for solving this would be to add all items to a new menu entry (something I thought about earlier, even without thinking about accessibility). The configuration dialog (reachable through the "File" menu or the "Change" button in the main window which is the first selected item) also uses tabs. I haven't checked this but I assume it has the same issues with voice. For first tests it would be helpful to get an insight in how a blind user expects the program to be useable. I.e. you could check what you actually can reach, which parts of the UI are unknown to you and how you'd expect it to work. I'd also suggest to look around on IRC as that's the place devs usually meet. Domonoky and bluebrother are the guys to talk to (I'm the latter). We're both in the CET+1 timezone and usually around at local evening time. Unfortunately I'm rather busy with real life at least this week so I can't promise being around or active all the time. For further discussion about this topic the development mailing list might also be a better place than the user list. In any case, thanks in advantage for your help -- hopefully we can make Rockbox Utility completely accessible eventually. - Dominik Received on 2007-10-08 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |