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Hey there. This is certainly something for a minority of users, but it would be cool if ft could be made easier for blind users to use. The most annoying problem, but probably also one of the easier ones to solve, is that it's quite hard to use the instrument editor, because the tab key doesn't move between fields of the dialog. I don't know if this is the tab's function of moving between channels taking over, or if the dialog doesn't have tabIndexces on it.
Also, the other problem is that my screen reading package, NVDA, doesn't speak the contents of the frame/pattern editor as I move, but it does seem to pick up the text that's there.
If you want to install NVDA so that you can test the problem and see how it would operate for a blind user, I can provide the link, it's a free program.
If you can't get to this right now, no worries, I'll just use ppmck in the meantime.
I'll help bring attention to this. It seems important.
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If it were possible, it'd definitely be a neat milestone for Famitracker. My guess, though, is that jsr will comment on the lengthy coding (something like this would seem like it'd take plenty of time to work on). I'm with Track_Man--despite how much stress it could put the guy through, I'd want to read jsr's personal opinions on this kind of work.
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Hello arfy! The tab key behaviour is broken in the instrument editor because the keyboard input is used to preview instruments, but that is possible to fix.
The harder part would be the pattern editor I assume, since all text is manually rendered. I can take a look and see if it's possible to make it compatible with the screen reader, and if it can be done without too much effort.
Otherwise I'd think ppmck is ideal in your case here since it's all text natively, and my tracker is mostly an attempt to bring the MML/MCK features into the graphical tracker interface, so feature-wise it should be about the same.
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RE: Making famitracker easier for blind usersPosted: 2013-10-09 22:12
Hi, jsr. Thanks for taking a look at this. Even if you just implement tabbing around the instrument editor, so I can more interactively make instruments to use in ppmck for now. my screen reader does see the text of the pattern editor it just doesn't track cursor movements and report it to an accessibility API. I'd be happy to either pm you or talk somewhere else if you want more help with this.
