Hi

The friends mine is blind and must use appropriate software to handle the Boinc Manager. These programs are "window-eyes" and NVDA, unfortunately there are problems. Here are a few of them:
1. NVDA can not read the text of labels from the BM.
2. There is a problem with reading the names of the tabs in the program.
3. When you try to connect the new project, NVDA readsonly "radio button, option button selected, plus alt n", etc..

I know that some of these problems occur on the side of NVDA, but I hope that some of them can also be solved on the manager ...

I forwarded your post to the developers.

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I got an answer from one of the developers, that they're busy with an overhaul of the Simple View for a next version of BOINC (after 6.12 !!). This to simplify the translations and to allow the use of screen readers and other accessibility aids for people with disabilities. The current Simple GUI was designed in a way that was incompatible with these goals, where the buttons for instance are pictures, not text.

So changes are coming, they're just not showing up in the next version 6.12, but in the one following that, 6.14. I hope you and your friend can wait that long. :)

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Hi

The friends mine is blind and must use appropriate software to handle the Boinc Manager. These programs are "window-eyes" and NVDA, unfortunately there are problems. Here are a few of them:
1. NVDA can not read the text of labels from the BM.
2. There is a problem with reading the names of the tabs in the program.
3. When you try to connect the new project, NVDA readsonly "radio button, option button selected, plus alt n", etc..

I know that some of these problems occur on the side of NVDA, but I hope that some of them can also be solved on the manager ...

It might be helpful if you and your friend could review trac ticket [trac]#147[/trac] and see if anything has been missed. Your comment about not being able to read the names of tabs sounds familiar - that must be in Advanced View, right?

Reading the latest comments on the ticket, BOINC should already switch automatically to Advanced View when it detects a screen reader. Does that happen with NVDA, or just with JAWS?

Everything what I wroted was on current (at the time of writting) version of manager and most of them are not sorted yet...
So if is any developer interested in this topic I would like to write better (and deeper) description of problems with BOINC Manager and NVDA...

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Krzysztof 'krzyszp' Piszczek
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BOINC 6.13, in test at this time, has the new Simple View.
Plus a gazillion bugs. ;-)

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Is any progress in manager cooperation with screen readers?

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Krzysztof 'krzyszp' Piszczek
Radioactive@Home
My free online ebook converter :)