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Advanced settings editor inaccessible to screen readers

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Hi,
I'm a fully blind xplorer² Ultimate user, and want to use the advance settings editor. However, it's not accessible with my screen reader, NVDA.
You can get NVDA from https://nvaccess.org/download. The extreme basics of keyboard navigation (in case you're not already aware) are:
tab or shift+tab: moves between controls (e.g., from an OK button to a cancel button).
up/down arrow: move up and down through a list, slider, or tree view.
left/right arrow: collapse or expand items in a tree view, or move through a list / slider in some cases.
All four arrow keys in a text field: moves your cursor.
It would be great if the advanced settings editor could be operated in this way. I'd recommend looking at the IAccessible interface (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... accessible), and how to set proper accessibility names and roles.
Thanks.
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please see my other reply, the external settings editor cannot be made accessible
the only chance you have is to read the file called REGISTRY.TXT which is in the xplorer2 installation folder and has all the advanced settings, and then use regedit to turn them on/off...
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Quin wrote: 2024 Mar 14, 14:30 Hi,
I'm a fully blind xplorer² Ultimate user,
nikos wrote: 2024 Mar 14, 17:44 please see my other reply
I see what you did there.
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figures of speech are hard to eradicate :)
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