Accessibility of Torrent/File Lists with a Screen Reader

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Blind users use software called a screen reader to read text on their computer 
screens and interact with the OS via the keyboard.  In previous versions of 
Transmission Remote GUI, the torrent, file, peer etc lists were standard, 
MSAA-enabled listview controls.  In newer versions of the GUI, however, these 
lists are of a non-standard control type, and do not work properly with screen 
reading software.  This makes it extremely difficult to interact with loaded 
torrents, get information about the state of torrents, etc.

All listviews in the program should use standard listview controls.

Using Transmission Remote GUI v2.1, on Windows XP Pro SP3 (although the 
listview control is non-standard on all versions of Windows).  Also, I have 
tried the NVDA screen reader from
http://www.nvda-project.org
and JAWS for Windows version 11 from www.freedomscientific.com

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jamessch...@googlemail.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 11:05

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I also hope this issue gets fixed. I love this remote gui, deffinitly still my 
favourite out of the ones I've tried for windows.

Original comment by serrebi...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 4:56

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Bad news for you. The standard listview controls was replaced by custom grid 
controls on purpose - to make consistent look and behavior on all supported 
platforms.
AFAIK Lazarus does not support accessibility features on custom controls and I 
can not enable them for custom grid controls.

Sadly, but the only solution for you is to use the 1.4 version. It is still 
available for download.

Original comment by j...@cp-lab.com on 25 Aug 2010 at 8:06

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Original comment by j...@cp-lab.com on 26 Aug 2010 at 2:29

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