My patch didn't make the screens accessible, as they already were
fairly usable to begin with. I associated the settings' labels
with their fields, which made navigating the radio config by
tab/shift-tab much easier.
Anyhow, didn't want to take more credit than I was due. :) CHIRP
is a nice piece of software.
CHIRP is pretty accessible under Linux. I have one of these
radios as well, and programming it under CHIRP was fairly easy.
I even submitted a patch a few months back to make the settings
screens accessible. These let you modify the radio settings
without having to navigate the mostly inaccessible menus on the
radio.
The only gotcha I'm aware of is that, when you're editing
channels, there are combo boxes for the minimum and maximum
channels to display, and for some reason these default to 0 and
1. So, unless you set this to 127, you may only see one channel
and be massively confused by that. And with lots of channels,
there can be a bit of lag rendering the initial table. Might be
worth capturing a debug.out and seeing if that can be optimized
away, but at the time I had my hands full learning about the new
radio, and the delay wasn't huge enough to be overly
problematic.
On 1/16/19 10:52 AM, Dave Hunt via
orca-list wrote:
I'm shopping for new ham radio gear, and leaning toward the
Bao Feng portables. Apparently, these radios can be programmed
using the Chirp tool, which is available in the Ubuntu
repositories, but, how accessible is this tool, using orca?
(am thinking, 3.28 or later) Maybe there is a similar tool,
with better accessibility, is Chirp isn't a good option?
Thanks,
Dave Hunt
Amateur Radio Callsign: wx1g
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