Hi, Well, regarding Stella it uses SDL's cross-platform window manager and text is drawn to the screen using SDL's API. Since SDL doesn't use the Microsoft Win32 API Jaws, Window-Eyes, Hal, etc have no way of getting any information about that window and the text on it. They depend heavily on core Windows libraries like user32.dll, kernel32.dll, shell32.dll, etc to get the sstate of the window attributes etc. If a program doesn't use the Win32 API and send its Window information via that API Windows screen readers are effectively blind to what is on the screen. That's why the menus etc in Stella don't talk.
Cheers! On 1/13/11, Tom Randall <kf6...@comcast.net> wrote: > I would add to this that if you try to bring Stella up by itself, e.g. > without employing the command prompt to automatically load a game or > otherwise having it load a game, the menus and dialogs within Stella appear > to be completely inaccessible at least with Hal, NVDA and Window Eyes. What > this means is that you are going to have a very hard time setting up a > joystick for instance instead of the keyboard to play games. There may be > some way around this however I have not found one yet. If there isn't then > you will need sighted assistance in order to configure the program to use a > controler. Nonetheless, Stella is an excellent alternative if you wish to > play your old 2600 games and you either don't have a console or don't want > to bother hooking one up. I've got two of them actually but neither is > hooked up right now so Stella is very convenient. > > Hope this Helps. > > Tom --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
