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> Subject: Re: [Bug-XBoard] Accessibilty request.
> From: Joshua Pettus <[email protected]>
> Date: January 15, 2015 at 10:05:22 AM EST
> To: Gabriele Battaglia <[email protected]>
> 
> Perhaps there is some kind of signal from the OS, unfortunately without 
> gtkmacintegration’s help, there is no way to detect if VO is running. 
> 
> Josh
> 
>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Gabriele Battaglia <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> Why do not include a simple feature which will be available only if VO is 
>> running, that provide a sort of simple textboxes: one, larger and above, 
>> captures the stdin with the engine traffic, maybe stripped a bit from the 
>> unwanted data, and two, lower and small that allow blind user to input 
>> direct command to the engines.
>> That's will simplify a bit the direct dialogue between human and engine via 
>> the terminal: you know, if the user is skilled, is not easy to speak UCI, 
>> LOL.
>> It doesn't matter to have the chessboard accessible, althought it could be 
>> easily done in HTML, the most important would be to have command to start 
>> and stop engine, to ask time clock for white and blak, to enter moves, to 
>> ask the best line of analysys, to offer draw or surrender. Thinks like that.
>> If your provide a simple module like this your software will be really for 
>> all and wyou will be the first serious app to study and play chess on Mac.
>> Moreover, these features could be totally hidden to the sighted user, so 
>> other people won't complain about unwanted and stranges textboxes here and 
>> there.
>> 
>> Thank you very much for you answer and time.
>> 
>> Gabriel.
> 

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