Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

[thomas]

INdeed. You have to build the small stuff before you can build the bigger stuff. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[Steve Waite]

That's why I put in accessibility for screen readers first. Since the Narrator and NVDA readers are operational across the entire desktop, it's nice to be able to move into IF with the regular reader operating.

IF's unique TAccessible components have scripts that replace every label caption. A lot are the same as the caption. But since label captions often are not enough, IF goes a long way further. In that respect other software just has label captions.

But since IF can talk as well, it's no trouble for IF to do all the talking all the time when we are in an IF window. That brings up other concerns so I will consider that option at a later date.

[thomas]

Here's an idea for you. I have just discovered that most of the gages of each aircraft are labeled with tooltips. I discovered this with two other friends of mine who gave me the idea to turn a feature of nvda on that reads tooltips when I move the mouse around. Perhaps that might help you when you are attempting to make it read the instrument panel later on. I found that when the cursor hit a tooltip, it sometimes told me the status of that gage and the like, even the status of some buttons. You could possibly have ideal flight scan and read some of these tooltips that might be labeled. Although some aircraft don't have their gages properly labeled with tooltips so it will be a hit and miss kind of thing. Hope that will help you in the long run.

[Steve Waite]

That's a great idea.

Generally I can't pull anything out of the sim since it is a graphical image. Unless I've complicated things with message handling to interpret what's going on.

What's the first thing you do when you are sat in the cockpit and the flight finally started up?

[thomas]

Hmm, what do you mean what is going when the flight starts up? Are you asking what my procedure is?

[Steve Waite]

Yes. I was just thinking out loud what it might be you want to hear first, run through of the aircraft situation for example?

[thomas]

I think the most feasible thing I would need to know is before takeoff what position my flaps are at plus if I am centered on the runway. Other than that, I would need to have a way to access all of the light to turn them on or off. Those kinds of things.

[Steve Waite]

Yes, that's what I was thinking.

The question goes out to anyone else that would like to add any ideas.

I'm putting in things like flap position, gear up down stuff like that at the moment. What's needed is a way to bring up an arbitrary selection of what we want to hear when we want t hear it.

[Orinks]

Oi...

Unfortunately, the Tramp developer flipped out that I had an opinion on his business model and revoked my license keys and my ability to register any new license keys.

I'd really like an IF autopilot method ASAP now. Going to try to get this stupid incident resolved but the fact that a dev thinks he has the right to do that is crazy.

[Steve Waite]

What's the minimum set of things you use tramp for. Moving the plane to from the runway?