[VBox-users] Accessibility in VirtualBox

Wed Aug 30 16:36:22 EDT 2017

Hi,

Le 30/08/2017 à 22:11, Gregory Nowak a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 02:47:16PM +0200, Michael Thayer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are currently re-doing accessibility in VirtualBox (specifically in
>> the user interface, since Qt5 provides more accessibility support).  We
>> were wondering if anyone reading this list would be able and willing to
>> give us some feedback and advice.  Please get in touch if so (and please
>> keep Sergey on CC, as he is not on the list).

That is an excellent news for disable people. We have been waiting this
for a long.

> I can tell you that the menu that can be brought up while the guest is
> running with I believe vbox+home hasn't been accessible for a long
> time. While I myself am still running an older version of virtualbox,
> I have heard from someone on the speakup list recently that this is
> still the case in the latest vbox version.
> 
> Also, when in the virtualbox GUI up/down arrow events change focus,
> but the nvda screen reader under windows doesn't speak this
> automatically. This is true when for example selecting among available
> guests, selecting guest OS version, or selecting ram or virtual disk size.
> 
> If there are versions with improved accessibility that I can provide
> feedback on, I'm willing to test those. I'm also sending a cc to the
> speakup list, since I know there are a few users of virtualbox there.

The same for me. I add to complete the bug reports I did about it:
- https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14327
- https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16133
- https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16137
- https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16993
- https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16994

If I can help for tests, bug reports follow-up, etc, I will be glad with it.

Regards,

> Greg
> 
> 

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