Ideal Flight Accessibility phase 2

[Steve Waite]

IF10 and >augmented combined for FSX is the same as IFPro costs for P3D v4.

The real problem for me was that those who purchased IF10 Pro for P3D v2/3 did not have a discount opportunity for moving to P3D v4.

Most 'Ideal Flight money' has been poured back into development of the accessibility features. Ideal Flight products are only available through the generosity of third party investments.

[Steve Waite]

I have extended the Hot Keys to rotate through the Voice items sets, back and forth. Also the sets can be selected automatically with some of the flight stages as the flight progresses. Also chooses Approach and Final for those Go To's.

The simulator has a TAB+Key option for key input. TAB key is used a lot by screen readers and for switching views to other apps. For now I have not included these. Instead I have chosen unused CONTROL+SHIFT+KEY combinations. The keys can be remapped and these keys are shown in the Keyboard and controls reference html document that Ideal Flight produces, see popup menu.

[Steve Waite]

A problem Darrell found is being fixed. What can happen, the files in:
"C:\ProgramData\Ideal Flight Professional\Profiles\Setups"
example "Default_Default.ini"
Can become saved empty, showing zero size in Explorer. An empty file will result in a bad or missing flight file message when starting the flight.
If this happens, delete empty files there, and ones with no blank line feeds amongst the text.

[Steve Waite]

29/February/2020:

Latest IF versions include screen reader support by codelegend Preview 08:

Ideal Flight Professional P3D v4
Ideal Flight 10 Professional P3D v3
Ideal Flight 10 Special Edition
Ideal Flight 10 Original

Included proximity in the voice settings and improved the repeating. Includes hotkeys for the voice sets and auto changes with some phases of flight see voice settings to enable, not had time to do help or complete the automation fully.

Fixed a few problems including the fps monitor and the empty defaults file.

[Steve Waite]

I have been doing some work on the maps and left some test code in by mistake. Consequently some of the maps show odd taxi names. This doesn't affect anything and will be repaired next update.

[Steve Waite]

Putting in a hot key to speak the current kneeboard page.

Fixed the glider canopy message.

Might still be issues using the raise IF window hot key. Improved that in next update.

Voice might speak of the assist form when starting IF. Ignore it, that's something else I forgot to delete before building the preview.

[Steve Waite]

I have a working popup window that has a list of locations to choose from. So I pull up on the runway, get my taxi instructions from ATC, then I popup the IF menu and choose the Assist window where I can choose a parking location. Choosing Ok to that and I am now instantly parked.

How does that sound?

[Orinks]

That's amazing, at least for short-term anyway. I'd love to see a taxi method someday, but I will totally take this for now.

That is for parking, but does that also work when entering the taxi phase it'll bring up a list of runways and the ability to reposition at the hold short line and another option to line up on centre?

Great stuff, looking forward to it.

[Steve Waite]

Yes, I'm in the middle of cleaning up, it is really good, totally accessible. It shows a list of parking and runway places you can be moved to. So you can choose one and then OK to move to a runway or to a parking space, including private parking locations. The aircraft appears at the chosen spot compliant with the ATC. Once I have my taxi or parking instruction I can pop up the form and choose the given location. Although taxi might ask you to hold short of runway it works OK with you appearing on the runway and you then get cleared for takeoff. Shortcomings are that an AI traffic may be in that location but that avoidance and other caveats I think of will be built in and handled next.

[jessiepp]

sounds like a very good idea can't wait to test this out.