Re: Blind aids reading Amaya

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:08:23 +0200, Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90@gmail.com> wrote:

> A teacher of the blind supplying resources for them has asked me the  
> following:
>
> 'My main question at the moment is how come JAWS and SATOGO screen
> readers don't read AMAYA. I desperately need to know that.'
>
> Does anyone know?  I would have expected all text to the screen would
> be read regardless of software.

No, it isn't. There are standard ways of putting text on the screen (and,  
more importantly but also more complicated in practice, user interface  
buttons, sliders, text boxes, etc) that are required if you want them to  
be available to a screen reader. From time to time these change, and they  
are different for different platforms.

Like many cross-platform applications, Amaya is built using a custom  
approach to rendering that doesn't work well with screen readers. Changing  
this is likely to be a fairly substantial amount of work, because simple  
approaches will have a *huge* impact on performance to the extent that the  
application becomes difficult to use. That said, if anyone has programming  
skills and plenty of time, it would be a great thing to do...

cheers

Chaals

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