Interface Is not Accessible With Screen Readers

[jsl303]

None of the UI elements are accessible with screen readers. You could test with either Narrator on Windows 10 (>= Fall Creators Update v1709), or VoiceOver on MacOS. https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/accessible.html

[HaHeho]

If required, isn't a fallback to the command line tools in order to administrate JACK the more accessible solution than trying to make a GUI work?

[jsl303]

Can you manage routing in command line to connect and disconnect ports?

[HaHeho]

There is a multitude of other executable that come with an installation or are build. However, I didn't really find a good place where they are documented. https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki#jack-tools

For your purpose jack_lsp (list ports) and jack_connect (connect ports) are the tools of choice. Curiously, neither is contained in the list above. No idea what is going on there. On Windows it might look like this:

C:\Users\hanne>jack_connect system:capture_1 system:playback_1

C:\Users\hanne>jack_lsp -c
system:capture_1
   system:playback_1
system:capture_2
system:capture_3
system:capture_4
system:capture_5
system:capture_6
system:capture_7
system:capture_8
system:capture_9
system:capture_10
system:capture_11
system:capture_12
system:capture_13
system:capture_14
system:capture_15
system:capture_16
system:capture_17
system:capture_18
system:playback_1
   system:capture_1
system:playback_2
system:playback_3
system:playback_4
system:playback_5
system:playback_6
system:playback_7
system:playback_8
system:playback_9
system:playback_10
system:playback_11
system:playback_12
system:playback_13
system:playback_14
system:playback_15
system:playback_16
system:playback_17
system:playback_18

C:\Users\hanne>

[jsl303]

I just compiled with qt 5.15, and many elements on QJackCtl seem to be accessible with VoiceOver. Unfortunately can't seem to access routing window. Thanks for letting me know about those command line tools. I'm on Mac, many of them listed on the page are not in my system for some reason. At least jack_connect, jack_disconnect, jack_lsp seem to be installed.

[jsl303]

Is there a command line tool that shows all the existing connections?

[jsl303]

Sorry, it looks like jack_lsp -c does that.