youtube-dl-gui: Accessibility regressions in youtube-dlg 0.4

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Bug report

If the problem occurs when downloading a URL please provide the full verbose output as follows:

  1. Restart youtube-dl-gui
  2. Go to Options > Extra tab
  3. Enable Debug youtube-dl
  4. Go to Options > Advanced tab and Clear your log content
  5. Try to download the URL
  6. Copy the whole log content and insert it between the ``` part below
delete me and insert your log content here

What operating system do you use ?

Windows 10 Build 1703.

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

  1. Load a screen reader, such as Narrator using control-windows enter in build 1703 or windows-enter in previous builds of windows.
  2. Navigate the main screen using tab and shift tab keys.

What is the expected behaviour ?

The buttons on the main screen should announce with names such as delete button, settings button, etc. This was the behaviour in the previous youtube-dlg, 0.3.8.

What happens instead ?

The screen reader simply says “button” for most buttons on the main screen. This makes it tricky to know what the buttons will do.

About this issue

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  • State: open
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Reactions: 1
  • Comments: 17 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

The UI is cluttered, but a lot of UIs are cluttered. I think it would be usable if screen readers are able to identify the buttons and controls. It would also help if controls had accelerator keys (alt+u for URLs, alt+d for downloads, something like that) so it would be easy to jump to a specific control.

This page has suggestions written for Gnome. They should translate to WX. https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/gad-ui-guidelines.html.en