Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

[Steve Waite]

I then use the working flight assist page to move back to Gate A 4, and I get the error once again.

So have I got this right: The error pops up when you attempt to move to a certain parking location in the Assist window. And if that location is already chosen in the flight generator, that error comes up when the Assist is selected in the main menu and the Assist window does not appear?

[Steve Waite]

The currently occupied parking locations could be presented with a problem in the simulator with some aircraft. I have changed the coding to account for more complex aircraft that can take a bit more time to become finalised into the simulation. I think that may have been the problem.

[Steve Waite]

voice selection auto-switch, could it switch to cruise when we get to the IF cruise?

I have included auto switch to the level flight voice set when you get to within 500 feet of the cruise altitude.

[Steve Waite]

I had to turn off the flaps detail and flaps degrees; I wish it would say just flaps 5, flaps 10, etc. Pressing F7 to hear flaps 10 degrees, flaps 15 degrees, flaps... etc, can get kind of spammy.

TFM just says flaps 5, 10, etc.

Because it says 'flaps 5 degrees' it is so annoying? Remember that you can use Flaps percent as well so it is a differentiator. Is it also annoying to the same degree to say 'flaps 50 percent'?

Since it is mentioned in the settings I could put in a switch to switch off verbosity for those used to the callouts, so those new to the callouts become aware first. So you would need to be remembering if you selected percent or degrees in the settings.

[Steve Waite]

As soon as possible, you really need to add descriptions to the voice selections page so that we know what the differences are between, say, autopilot functions and navigation functions.

OK am checking this out.


On choosing voice sets: Remember how the voice sets work. We can go into the currently selected set and change a setting. That setting is only permanent if the 'equals' button is used to Install the settings into the set. Otherwise the setting remains only until the set is changed. So in effect we have the sets plus one more non-permanent ad-hock set which is lost when we choose a set.

[Steve Waite]

As soon as possible, you really need to add descriptions to the voice selections page so that we know what the differences are between, say, autopilot functions and navigation functions.

In the Voice setting they already state whether they are autopilot functions. I maybe don't properly understand the request, can you give an example?

[Orinks]

I then use the working flight assist page to move back to Gate A 4, and I get the error once again.

So have I got this right: The error pops up when you attempt to move to a certain parking location in the Assist window. And if that location is already chosen in the flight generator, that error comes up when the Assist is selected in the main menu and the Assist window does not appear?

If the error comes up, pressing okay on it the assist window comes up, but it's as though tAccessible is not present. My curser lands on the Set autopilot items button and the dialogue reads with NVDA as though it's not supported and I were using, say, Jaws.

The drop-downs appear empty, but I don't know if they are or not because the screen reader doesn't read what they are.

Instead of the flight level edit box having my altitude, my screen reader simply says:
"et flight level"

This is for all of the autopilot values.

HTH.

[Orinks]

I had to turn off the flaps detail and flaps degrees; I wish it would say just flaps 5, flaps 10, etc. Pressing F7 to hear flaps 10 degrees, flaps 15 degrees, flaps... etc, can get kind of spammy.

TFM just says flaps 5, 10, etc.

Because it says 'flaps 5 degrees' it is so annoying? Remember that you can use Flaps percent as well so it is a differentiator. Is it also annoying to the same degree to say 'flaps 50 percent'?

Since it is mentioned in the settings I could put in a switch to switch off verbosity for those used to the callouts, so those new to the callouts become aware first. So you would need to be remembering if you selected percent or degrees in the settings.

Actually, when I have flaps detail off and just flaps degrees checked, it says flaps 5 degrees, but also says the flaps leading as well.

Perhaps add a separate checkbox for flaps leading? Or just remove flaps leading because I don't know when I'd need that, I generally just use degrees.

[Steve Waite]

Some aircraft have leading and trailing flaps but they generally all operate from the one flaps key. I'll have a look into it.

[Steve Waite]

What it does in the next build - if you don't check Flaps detail degrees or percent, you will hear 'Flaps 15' etc. along with the flaps sounds. Although that leaves no way of stopping that other than to disable the Voice callouts, this method still seems reasonable.