Hi. I am not a blind ham but am willing to throw my voice in there in order to make the software accessible for someone that wants to use it. Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
On 3 May 2014, at 2:07 pm, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been trying to get the developer of chirp to add some accessibility to > the app (considering that those class objects are included in python, there > shouldn't be an excuse not to). However, I have either been ignored (for the > most part) or had one of the other users on that mailing list try to argue > that we (as blind hams) are a too specialized population and too small to > consider changing some interface elements just for us. > > what we need to do is find every blind ham who are interested in being able > to program their own radios and just barrage the list with the same request: > "enable accessibility features". If they get enough list traffic with this > one subject, it may make the developer realize that we are not an > insignificant population. This basically means we need to find, contact and > convince every blind ham (quite a few of us are mac users) and have them > start this campaign. The only other way I can see to get him to do what we > want is to throw some money at him, post proof to his list and request that > he make the changes needed to allow us to use his software. > > These are just 2 suggestions and both have their strong points. Frankly, I am > more than a little frustrated with software developers who are lazy and > refuse to do something the right way. IMHO, the right way produces better > results than the lazy way. > > -eric > > > On May 2, 2014, at 6:58 AM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: > >> From: Buddy Brannan <bu...@brannan.name> >> Date: May 02 07:16AM -0400 >> Url: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/msg/806ab3c740dda0f2 >> >> I can guarantee you that Chirp is *not* accessible with Voiceover. For that >> matter, it can only be used with lots of mouse keys navigation under >> Windows, and most easily with Window-Eyes, in my experience. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
