Use of Roon on iPad for people with disabilities, Voice control

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

@richard_a

Why is this?

I stated the exact technical reason here:

Accessibility of Roon app in Windows w/JFW

Roon uses a custom drawing engine for performance and cross platform reasons… our entire user interface is written in OpenGL, which gets us the performance and portability we desire long term. Unfortunately, this means the graphical parts of the application are built like a video game, and less like a normal application. I fear that JAWS and others are built by hooking into the built-in Windows text areas, and then they won’t work with Roon. If you have a screen reader that works v…

@richard_a

Can something be done to fix this.

I stated the reason why this isn’t on the roadmap here:

Use of Roon on iPad for people with disabilities, Voice control

For Roon, this statement still holds true as ever and probably won’t change any time soon. It’s just what tech existed at the time when we started Roon (that accomplished what we needed), and changing this would mean rewriting the UI of the apps in a brand-new framework. This applies less to ARC since ARC’s UI is not based on the same technologies. closing this one out since the other feature request exists.

I’ll leave this open in case someone else wants to continue the discussion but understand that we know the issue.