[byron27]

So just a few interesting things I discovered while helping a friend of mine who is totally blind get XBMC going. Firstly, we got everything installed on Friday night and come Sunday her speech was not working at all. After a bit of investigation it turns out the add-on was missing from enabled add-ons. We reinstalled her add-on and all is good. I got home tonight and launched XBMC and uh-oh, my speech went away after about 2 minutes of running. I looked in enabled addons and mine was gone too. I reinstalled and saw that 0.26 was available. The other thing we noticed after helping someone from a totally blind perspective... you can't hear if there's anything already in the virtual keyboard and you can't hear if you have deleted everything from the keyboard. Also, you can't hear what percentage an add-on has downloaded when installing. The other thing is that of course this addon doesn't support JAWS at this point. If possible we should have a backend for it since it's one of the biggies on the realm of screen readers. The last thing we noticed is that my blind friend kept getting confused when she should do up or down arrow vs. left or right arrow. Is there a skin that forces everything including the front page to be vertically scrolling? Thanks!

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Also, can we figure out a method for blind people to install and configure the addon as a lot of people can't test at all without sighted help to get it running.