From: alex wallis <alexwallis646_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:33:02 -0000

> alex wallis wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I thought that the major problem with accessibility of the rockbox
>> utility was the fact that the version of qt it is built with isn't very
>> friendly with screen readers? I thought the qt developers had addressed
>> this in an update though.
> My understanding is that it should already be accessible in Windows (and
> possibly OS-X, I'm unclear on this) but that the lack in Qt prevents
> accessibility in Linux at this time. But even where there is some
> accessibility, there may be usability hindrances (or problems with
> specific screen readers) that we are unable to anticipate or correct
> ourselves.

Hi. Just as an experiment though has anyone tried building the utility with
the latest version of qt just to see if that makes a difference to
accessibility?
mostly with an application its important that all the dialogs, forms buttons
etc have caption text so they can be read with a screen reader.
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