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January 29, 2009 - 3:12pm
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clauderenaud
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Making PortableApps Menu screen reader accessible

Hi all,

I'm finally back to the portableApps world after several months of inactivity.
I just downloaded and installed the latest 1.1 PortableApps suite.

As I'm blind I work with a screen reader (JAWS from Freedom Scientific available at http://www.Freedomscientific.com).
The first thing I noticed launching the PortableApps menu is that my screen reader "sees" absolutely nothing, apparently because of a graphical design.
Could there be a workaround to make this menu and consequently the entire suite accessible for blinds ?
It could be for example possible to add a new Applications item (submenu, dropdown button) to the PortableApps menu software in order to give access to all programs available in the suite ...

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January 29, 2009 - 3:34pm
John T. Haller
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This is coming in an upcoming release. The problem is that our current development tools don't have screenreader-friendly versions of any of the graphical controls used. At all. I've come up with a workaround. Two, actually, In the upcoming 1.2 release, I'm duplicating the program list within a submenu of systray right-click menu. Can you currently get access to that?

Later, I've come up with a workaround combination control that will allow the controls in the menu itself to work in both instances but it will take a bit more to implement.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

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January 31, 2009 - 9:13am
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John, No problem with a

John,

No problem with a "submenu of
systray right-click menu", it would be very nice of you if you could do that, waiting for a more eleguant solution in the future ...

Regards,

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Claude Renaud

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