Dan,
I fell in love with ham radio at 10. Life got in the way. At 68 I
got my Technician, General, and Extra tickets plus VE certification in 6
months. I couldn't have done it without your help. And I couldn't
continue to enjoy my pursuit at 75 without you perseverance. Don't let
the malcontents get you down. And Thank You.
73, Chris, WD1E
On 2/20/2025 9:54 PM, Dan Smith via Users wrote:
You put in filters, so if I use B l i n d or s c r e e n r e a d e r
the messages will not make it to the list.
This is the Fake News, and it will be your last time asserting it on the
infrastructure I pay for you to use for free. I've been trying to get you to
file a bug so I can spend my evening examining your file and explaining how
you've broken the format so you can fix it. But you just want to complain.
While waiting for you to do that so I can help you, I've also spent my dinner
time implementing a best-effort function to try to parse out the format that
LibreOffice/OpenOffice puts on the clipboard to let you copy/paste multiple
memories from that application directly into chirp. Just for you. That change
will be in tomorrow's build, and yet while writing and debugging that, I'm
fielding accusations and complaints from you on this list. Sometimes I feel
like a masochist.
The truth is, Chirp does not read the fields with a SR so that is not fake.
Anyone can run J A W S and try it with Chirp and without the use of a mouse,
and they will get nowhere.
Yet, I can open any database program and use it with my SR.
I have access to three different SRs.
If people cared about a c c e s s i b i l i t y, they would test Chirp with
a SR.
As I have said many times before, this is a _fundamental_ lack of support in
the windowing toolkit that CHIRP uses to be cross-platform. It is not something
CHIRP can or will address. You may feel free to complain to WxWidgets about
this. I'm sorry it doesn't work with a screenreader like JAWS for better
accessibility, but you should feel free to learn how to fix the underlying
issue, or of course, use another tool.
Complaining about WxWidgets not supporting screenreaders for the Grid widget is
officially offtopic for this list. I really hate "code of conduct" documents,
but we clearly need one for this list. I'll work on that, because clearly this decade-old
FAQ entry is not enough:
https://www.chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/FAQ#Im-a-blind-ham-Can-I-use-CHIRP-with-a-screen-reader
--Dan
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