(2017-11-19, 23:11)chrisstefanovski Wrote: Hey ruuk.
I successfully managed to do it by following post 512, so I installed kodi 16, then installed screen reader, and then I installed kodi 17 over it, screen reader now works.
But I have few questions. Which keymap should I use? I installed both default and custom keymap, and can't see any real difference. Then, as I had kodi 16, screen reader saw nvda, but now it always speaks through sapi, and in engines list, I see sapi, auto, log and some http thing. Then, it won't read the list of sapi voices when I press enter on subsetting voice, I move with left and right arrows, but it only makes the sound, doesn't read it.
My last question is, how should I navigate the menus? The layout seems kind of weird, sometimes it seems that things are either out of order, or I still have to learn the menu layout, that I'm not sure. Is there any kind of guideline for menu navigation, how's the layout?
Kodi by default is definitely not laid out optimally for blind users. Since Kodi is skinnable, a skin could be made with a layout that doesn't rely heavily on visual cues, but making a skin is a fairly large task so that's why we don't have that yet. Skins other than Estuary (the default skin) might have a more intuitive layout for you as there's a variety of styles and layouts, but I'm not sure which ones would work best. Maybe some other users have tested some out and can comment.
Generally speaking, most Home windows have the major categories (such as Videos, Music,Pictures, etc.) in a list which you can click on and drill down to the actual playable items. If you are on one of these major categories and navigate off the axis of the list, depending on the skin, you will get things contextually related. Estuary's main list is vertical and has at it's top 3 horizontal options - Power, Settings and Search. If (for example) you are on Movies and move off to the right, intially you will have some buttons that direct you to add paths to use for your library. If you've done this you will then instead have a vertical list of horizontal rows. The top row has "Categories", the next down has "Recently added movies", the next "Unwatched movies" and so forth.
When off the home menu browsing through your library, generally you have a list (or grid) of items and off the axis of the list you will have menus of options, generally including a ViewType option that allows you to change the layout of that list. These layouts can be horizontal or vertical and can be either a single row/column or be in a grid.
That's a quick summary, and hopefully it's at least a little helpful
(2017-11-20, 20:42)chrisstefanovski Wrote: Here's what I see when I go to settings/add-ons/manage dependencies. Nvda controller client dependency is shown as orphaned. What it means, and what should I do about it?
I found the same dll, so nvda controller client, for some other apps which have nvda support in. Could I put this dll somewhere to solve the issue, in the folder of kody screen reader, and if so, where should I put it? Jaws works when I select it, just nvda doesn't, because of the orphaned dependency.
The add-on for the NVDA controller is normally installed by the installer. You can also install it from within Kodi by installing from zip. Here's a link to that:
https://github.com/ruuk/repository/blob/...p?raw=true
