[vlc] access problem with a screen reader (Windows and Linux)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello David,

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:16:45PM +0100, David Klein wrote :
> I am blind and so I'm using a screen reader. A screen reader is a software
> which translates the information from screen into Braille and display it on
> a Braille display and gives also feedback via synthetic speech.
I know what a screen reader is, and I have tested VLC on screen readers.
I am aware of the issue.

> The problem is that you changed from wxWidgets to Qt since version 0.9.x.
> It's not possible for any screen reader to handle with Qt because of it's
> structure. The new GUI makes it impossible for all blind and visually
> impaired people to use VLC media player. That's a pity because it is a very
> good project. This problem affects all blind and visually impaired people
> who want to use this software.
> The best solution would be to go back to wxWidgets or to make both GUIs
> available.

Well, wx is more broken than Qt, and I am not even sure the code still
compiles correctly.

Do you have other Qt applications that you can try to see if the issue
is global in Qt, or just for VLC?

Best


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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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