Re: [orca-list] XBoard Accessibility

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

Hello,

One thing I forgot to mention.

h g muller hccnet nl, le Thu 30 Jul 2015 13:10:25 +0200, a écrit :
> 2) Messages spoken in response to activation of menu items specifically
> targeting accessibility functions. Such as reading aloud of the entire
> board position, the current row or column, the pieces attacked by the
> currently selected piece, or those attacking it, etc.
[...]
> 3) Auditory feedback on the 'board cursor' navigation in response to the
> arrow keay.
[...]
> 4)Messages spontaneously announced by XBoard on a not-directly
> user-triggered event,
[...]

That is when a disabled user uses audio feedback.  Other disabled users
might be using braille, or whatever other kind of device to transmit
text to them, you can never know how that happens.  That's another
reason why the duty to choose how to transmit information is given to
the screen reader: that one was configure to transmit the information
the way the user can get it.

Since we can hide the notification widget and still get orca to read it
(being worked on, but will succeed), is there a reason not to do it?

Samuel