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talkback-foss-team / talkback-foss

Unofficial FOSS-friendly fork of Google's TalkBack
https://talkbackfoss.app
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Brand New Screen Reader: Looking for the interested developers for FOSS project. #28

Closed akash07k closed 1 year ago

akash07k commented 2 years ago

Hey all, So I thought that it is the best repo to post this hence I'm here with this. Please read it carefully: Actually Talkback has several flaws and the code is kind of quite legacy. Jieshuo is comprehensive, but is closed source. I'm planning to develop a very comprehensive, stable, powerful and feature rich screen reader for android which should be open source and can replace both the existing leading screen readers. As there's NVDA on Windows, I want to implement the same for android too. So, I'm looking for the interested developers. Please let me know if you are interested. Android Studio is quite slow and crappy from accessibility point of view, so my main target is to develop such screen reader purely in Xamarin .net. But if I get many developers who are interested in Kotlin/Java(Android Studio) then I will consider that too. However, .NET developers are more preferred for this project. Please get in touch with me if you or somebody is interested and please share this post on your groups/mailing lists too so that we can get enough interested developers and contributers. If you are really interested, then please fill this short and quick form: https://forms.gle/fU3gEZDDWSAHFhfr7

PatrykMis commented 2 years ago

Great iniciative which I will support.

Better something than nothing, but unfortunately I think Xamarin Will not be as flexible as Kotlin, because it will add additional translation layer (speed/performance issues), may require to use non-free software and/or libraries and we would unable to use native Android APIs.

PatrykMis commented 1 year ago

Regarding Android Studio accessibility - it performs quite well with screen readers (I'm using JAWS and NVDA). Also studying some documentation might help:

PatrykMis commented 1 year ago

Also, take a look at @Irineu333's SpeekTouch project as it's really promising.

Closing.

akash07k commented 1 year ago

No it doesn't. I'm already into android studio since more than 7 years now. Even the most basic thing: The word navigation is buggy in the editor. Anyways ...

Regarding Android Studio accessibility - it performs quite well with screen readers (I'm using JAWS and NVDA). Also studying some documentation might help:

akash07k commented 1 year ago

🤣 Do you think that the person who has spent so many years with Android Studio hasn't checked these documentations before? But yes, I will try with Canary/RC version once, may be they are better now.

Regarding Android Studio accessibility - it performs quite well with screen readers (I'm using JAWS and NVDA). Also studying some documentation might help:

PatrykMis commented 1 year ago

@akash07k No, I am in no way questioning your experience, absolutely not.

Do you know this guy? https://vitechtoday.com/a-guide-to-becoming-a-visually-impaired-developer-android/

May be a good idea would be to contact him and ask how he configured Android Studio/screen reader if he boasts (in other posts too) that he are even successfully using code completion? I'm thinking about it from yesterday.

Navigating by words? From mine and my friends experience, I can say that using a braille display while coding is much, much better (special characters, indentation which is becoming more and more important in different languages etc.).

akash07k commented 1 year ago

Yes, you are absolutely right.

Braille displays are a godsend especially for coding because they give us a perfect view of indentations, special characters etc.

I don't know this guy, I'll read his post.

If you are interested and comfortable, let's connect on WhatsApp/telegram so that we can both can communicate in depth and exchange the ideas in realtime.

Let me know how can I share my TG username with you.

On 4/20/2023 1:08 AM, Patryk Miś wrote:

@akash07k https://github.com/akash07k No, I am in no way questioning your experience, absolutely not.

Do you know this guy? https://vitechtoday.com/a-guide-to-becoming-a-visually-impaired-developer-android/

May be good solution would to contact him and ask how he configured Android Studio/screen reader if he boasts (in other posts too) that he are even successfully using code completion? I'm thinking about it from yesterday.

Navigating by words? From mine and my friends experience, I can say that using a braille display while coding is much, much better (special characters, indentation which is becoming more and more important in different languages etc.).

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PatrykMis commented 1 year ago

Sure. Drop me an e-mail - it's on my public GitHub profile.