No there are not two many interfaces because what you do with touch doesn't have to effect what you do on the keyboard a layer could be added to the keyboard to make the keyboard emulate a touch screen if you wished to do so and in some cases this would be a really good thing to do. the wonderful thing here is that you would still keep your windows keyboard support the best support out there if you ask me you are just adding a new method of doing things. The user can use it or not.
No reason I can see why a vb template could not be maid for adding touch support for the apps and the window-eyes frame work system of course would add the ability to speak with the windows eyes com to register touch modes sub modes and commands. Of course the real work would have to be done buy gw micro to make the object and then write apps that used them to provide real world working examples. I my self would love to beta test any such animal as well smile. From: Dave Bahr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 6:18 PM To: Jim Grimsby JR.; [email protected] Subject: Re: winamp is not going away... that's a really good idea, actually. So in other words, could you create some sort of vb template to use for touch-based interaction and then just apply it to all window-eyes apps? Winamp would be a good trial for something like that. I have an android tablet and haven't a clue as to what I'm doing with it, just bought it as a toy, really. But I gotta say that I'd love to beta test a touch system for we, although to play devil's advocate, or I suppose this would be keyboard's advocate, this would mean coding for another interface on top of the keyboard one for window-eyes which also of course now included the insert key layout. So maybe there are too many interfaces? On 1/7/2014 3:48 PM, Jim Grimsby JR. wrote: Ok just so everyone knows winamp isn't going away after all. this is good news for those of us who use a screen reader like window-eyes. The winamp accessability threw the winamp app is wonderful. Thanks jeff for all the good work here and keep it up. It will be interesting to see what can be done with touch and winamp do to the fact that the other screen readers I have tried here doesn't really work with touch. This is another reason touch modes need to be added to apps. So lets say you are in winamp. You then turn on the winamp mode buy flicking 2 digits down the screen tell you here winamp. Then flick up and down tell you here the command set you want for example play back controls. Now flick left or right tell you here the option you want and then double tap. The window-eyes winamp app would then send the command along to winamp it self. This way you could provide access to programs that don't use UIA or any other means of allowing window-eyes to provide touch elaments. Ok I know I got touch on the brain right now sorry. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
