Hello Saga,
Most screen readers include some kind of scripting language to help make less accessible applications more so. Although I do not have the patience to do this myself, I believe that most of OpenMPT's interface could be made more accessible to some of the more popular screen readers like Jaws by someone with the scripting knowledge and time. I believe even the pattern view could probably be made somewhat more accessible by having Jaws scripts retrieve the current row/channel from the status bar. For the most part, the only item related to positioning which is not currently displayed in the status bar is the column number of the current channel. I.E. note/instrument/volume/effect. The first part of the status bar displays the channel. I.E.
Chn: 1
The last part displays the row/column. I.E.
Row 0, Col 5
However, what has always confused me is why the "Col" value in that part of the status bar once again refers to the channel number, and not the column number of the current channel. Isn't this a bit redundant since the channel number is already displayed in the first part of the status bar or is there something that I'm missing? I guess in the back of my mind, I have always thought that the "Col" value should refer to the column number of the selected channel instead. My request is that this behavior be modified so that "Col" refers to the column number of the current channel. Either that, or add a separate value to the status bar indicating the currently selected column of the selected channel. I believe this addition could go a long way towards potentially scripting the pattern view for accessibility.
Thanks.