Re: [orca-list] Pleasantly surprised by the accessibility of Rockbox Utility

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
If anyone is interested I created a script that generates voice files for Rock Boxed mp3 players. It gones in .gnome2/nautilut-scripts/ and you just right click the file or directory you want to make talk files for and select the script and it just works. You can choose from several different voices. Just send me a email if you are interested.
Thanks
Storm

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On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 20:31 -0400, Kyle wrote:
> Now that I have qt-at-spi installed and working, I thought I would do 
> some rather extensive testing of the Rockbox Utility, which installs 
> Rockbox firmware on mp3 players, and also installs voice data to make 
> some mp3 players talk.
>
> A rather important note: the Rockbox Utility binary distribution at
> http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtility
> is presented by Orca as "inaccessible," probably because it wasn't built 
> using QT 4.8, which appears to be the first version that supports 
> qt-at-spi accessibility. Having said this, I was able to build the 
> application from the source tree, and it works quite well. I was able to 
> successfully install the .talk files for the files and folders on my mp3 
> player with only a few issues, most of which are described in the 
> Rockbox Utility wiki page at
> http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/RockboxUtility#Known_accessibility_issues
> The only issue I had that was not addressed by the wiki was a problem 
> reading characters in a text box. Tabbing to the text box read the 
> entire text in the box, but arrowing left/right was not speaking. On the 
> other hand, I was quite pleasantly surprised by just how well it is 
> working, even though the Rockbox devs likely hadn't yet considered 
> accessibility specifically on Linux, because up until qt-atspi and 
> at-spi2 over DBus, QT accessibility on Linux was a big fat zero. <smile> 
> The best surprise for me was my ability to tab through the progress 
> window as the .talk files were being created so that I was able to read 
> any errors that occurred and also to know that the talk file generation 
> was completed.
>
> I just thought I'd share my experiences with one specific application I 
> will likely be using now that I have at least some access to QT 
> applications. In the middle of all the bug reports and things that still 
> need to be worked out, especially for QT, as Linux+QT+Orca accessibility 
> is quite new, I thought it would be a good idea to share the encouraging 
> results I have had so far, and to take this oppertunity to say thank you 
> to all the wonderful people who are working hard to make it all possible.
> ~Kyle
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