[vlc] Re: Making VLC more accessible to the blind

[Antoine Cellerier]

Hello,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006, petrakigianos-giasou at yahoo.com wrote:
> To the developers of VLC. Can you at least label the graphics?
> That is at least the buttons on the main user interface. See
> when my screen reader goes to these buttons all I hear is
> "graphic" and not what the button name. This is simple to fix.
> Label each button with text. Alternate text. This will not
> affect sighted computer users as they will not notice any screen
> gui changes. The screen reader I use here is JAWS 7.0 from
> Freedom Scientific.

I'll add a ticket about that in our bugtracking database. It shouldn't
be too hard to change.
(The ticket: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/495 )
 
> What is this Ncurses material I read in your documenttation?

It's a texted based interface (i don't know if it's available on
windows. It works fine on linux)

> I can play DVDs with no issues. The menu bar is very helpful for
> some things. 

Sorry if this seems rude but, why do blind people use DVD/Movie players?

Best regards,

-- 
Antoine Cellerier
dionoea

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