Dear friends,
Our current accessible XBoard is passing the information to
screen reader via a status bar located at the bottom side of XBoard.
But this extra widget is bit annoying for sighted users. So I
discussed this issue with Joanmarie and finally we decided to make
this widget hidden and make orca read notification from invisible
status bar too. see following links
https://github.com/GNOME/orca/commit/52064c1e1903d28fdc482a9d9b76569524270413
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752211
So now the widget will be hidden and orca will announce the messages
from XBoard. Also one can make it show by checking "Show Status Bar"
menu item in Accessibility menu. The patch for XBoard is attached with
this mail.
The HG Muller one of the core developer of XBoard and mentor of mine,
said that there are some sighted users who use sensory physical board
with XBoard to play chess, and they too requested for the TTS feature.
So I have added a new check menu item named "Announce Move" in options
menu and one can simply enable it. Currently it uses direct espeak
command. Later we can make this through Speech Dispatcher(gnu/linux)
or SAPI(windows).
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