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Making NVDA accessible with trelby #6918

Open manbat34 opened 7 years ago

manbat34 commented 7 years ago

Trelby is open source software. It is somewhat accessible with NVDA, however, some of the controls in the program are not spoken. The websight is www.trelby.org.

Adriani90 commented 5 years ago

@manbat34 could you please give an update on how NVDA2019.1 works with this software for you? As I can see the development seems to be discontinued, the last release was in 2012 and the last commit on Github was in 2016.

Adriani90 commented 4 years ago

I have tested with Trelby 2.2, this software is quite old but it's a really interesting tool and I can imagine that this is still widely used in theater sets, movie industry etc. Currently, NVDA recognizes every button etc with object navigation, however NVDA does not report anything in the editing area. According to the documentation the text navigation works like in every edit field, but the focus events are not sent to NVDA. Don't know if they are exposed or not. However, this softeare is open source and I think it is possible to explore the code and find out where the problem exactly is. I hope that someone in the NVDA community will look into this at a certain point.

Adriani90 commented 1 month ago

@ghost, @limburgher sorry to tag you on this repository, but we have some blind NVDA users trying to work in this area and they report that still some controls and the edit area are not working as expected with the screen reader. Is there a binary installer for 2.4.10 for Windows so we can test the current status of accessibility? Is there any road map for the future development with regards to accessibility in Trellby?

limburgher commented 1 month ago

Hello! No worries, glad to help if I can.

We don't currently have a Windows installer. If you clone the git repo, pip3 -r requirements.txt, and make, you should then be able to run bin/trelby. Ultimately I intend to modernize Trelby's packaging so that it can be distributed via PyPi/pip.

Regarding accessibility, it's something I'm certainly aware of but have not worked with specifically with the wxPython toolkit; most of my GUI work has been GTK.

If you can identify gaps in Trelby, I believe I can make use of the wx.Accessibility module to close them. I'll need help testing, since I lack a Windows machine and can only test screenreading with Orca on Linux (Fedora).