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I recently downloaded XBMC because I heard of all of the cool video add-ons available to users. I was sorely met with a program that didn't interact with my screenreader. I am partially sighted though, so I was able to tinker without the accessibility support. However, I want to forward the message of XBMC to all of my friends who are also blind. I was thinking... boy, why couldn't we have a grey and blue, boring windows interface that lets us get to all of the meat of the addons without all of the graphics? Then I went Googling and came upon this site. If there are any coders who want to check on the accessibility option, there is a very powerful and FREE screenreader called NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) that most blind people keep as a backup in their bag of tricks. Try downloading that and then running XBMC and you'll see how unresponsive it currently is to a screenreader. Isn't there some way to get at all of that juicy content floating around the interwebs provided by XBMC's add-ons without going full screen and loading up a big GUI?



I will say as a LOW VISION user, the Quartz skin is great for those of us with problems seeing. The Apple TV is very blind friendly so as soon as I saw that the interface was similar I got really excited. Anyway, I'll await replies on this.

Thanks!

Weirdly your post comes up only as "I recently downloaded" but when i hit "quote" there is a much longer message.

So I'll post this reply simply so others can see your message.

Is NVDA restricted to any particular OS? If so it'll get little traction on a multi platform project. Also is it open source?

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Weirdly by the time I finished my post yours now comes up properly!