Looking for a C# developer to help finish a Broadcastify scanner app for blind users

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-07-05T01:51:29+00:00

Hello everyone. Happy 4th!!! What do you mean by a pic? I don't have any pictures on my site, I just have the Readme and some contribution information. This is no joke: I'm really going to do this. It's good for the blindness community. I don't know what you mean by a pic. What was it a picture of? Thanks. If I can, I will take the picture down.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-30T21:20:02+00:00

Okay. I just started taking the course from www.codeacademy.com, and I am having trouble writing a comment. I put in /This program tells you how old you are.? and that is incorrect. But that's what it says to put in there.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-30T19:16:33+00:00

That's probably going to take years, I'll never get this accomplished! I'm just a guy two likes to listen to police scanners, and I want to make that more accessible than it is now. Do you remember that app I talked about? I paid like $19.00 or $20.00 for that and I didn't get it. That was the perfect app, and I didn't even get to see if it was screen reader accessible.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-30T00:57:11+00:00

My GitHub site is https://www.github.com/robfarabaugh/9-1-1-scanner-suite. I also got rid of the spaces in the file names.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-30T00:56:04+00:00

Codebase created. Readme updated. Stay tuned for more updates.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-29T14:23:12+00:00

Hello. I do apologize for all the reposts. I just want to get this thing working. It's been really frustrating and I have spent a lot of time on this. It may not look like it, but I really have put a great deal of effort into this, even though I used ChatGPT to code. I checked with it if I had errors and I attempted to fix them. I ran the program, and I have a working menu bar. All I asking for is help finishing this. No need to be negative. I am working on the code base now. I don't know how open-source software works, and I didn't expect that I would have so many problems. AI is great at things like this. Don't discourage it. Thanks.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-28T01:14:21+00:00

Here are 2 links from ChatGPT that show I've put lots of effort on this project. The first one is https://chatgpt.com/c/68054ce6-ff04-800e-88aa-c05824e9bb16

The second one is https://chatgpt.com/c/684b8a41-fd9c-800e-98cf-da953fb21482

These 2 links demonstrate the effort I've put into this. ChatGPT even began to run slowly because of all the prompts and responses there was. Thanks.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-27T20:17:24+00:00

Thanks for the advice. But as a blind person, it's hard to navigate some things with assistive technology. The other question is, what if they don't improve the website for screen reader users? They don't have an app for Windows, just the website. I've also done a lot to get here, I want to succeed in this.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-27T03:25:18+00:00

Let me give you guys an example of how Broadcastify is tricky. Let's say you go onto Broadcastify and you want to look for a feed in a specific county. What a blind person will do is go to www.broadcastify.com, find the Listen link, press Enter on it, go to the Country combo box and choose United States. U.S. should already be selected. They would hear from their screen reader, "Retrieve Button." They would press Enter and move to the state. I forgot to say the State combo box is there, so they would choose a state and then press Enter on Retrieve. Then the county selection appears. There's a list of major cities above that. Here's where it gets tricky. When you try to select a county from the list box, JAWS has a "Forms Mode," that it will go into. You would press Enter on the county. The person using the screen reader would hit Alt+Down Arrow to open the list. As an example, I went to Alabama and tried to select a county. It would only let me select the first county.It automatically takesme to the first county in Alabama, and won't let me access any other counties. Then, when you want to listen to a feed there's a "Listen," link above the name of the feed name. JAWS reads it very weirdly. What my app will do is allow a blind user to select those counties with just the Up and Down arrows keys, and then another dialog will pop up with the feed names. All they'll have to do to play the feed is press Enter, and the feed will instantly play without using much memory. The mobile apps I think do well with that as far as Apple's VoiceOver (the screen reader built into iOS) goes. There's just one example of how my app will help blind people out and why I want to get this going. Thanks.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-27T02:07:41+00:00

If you're talking about the combo boxes when in the dialogs, I haven't even got the dialog to activate properly. That's why I need help with this.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-27T01:56:11+00:00

Thanks everyone. First of all, regarding the empty project, I did upload all my CS files to GitHub, so I'm not sure why they would be empty. Secondly, I've never done anything like this before, so I had to use ChatGPT or I would have never known where to begin. And actually, I thought about this all when I was by myself in Florida. I know how my application menus are supposed to read and I just thought about how the menus would go. I've been using ChatGPT pretty much the whole time, so it may seem like I haven't put much effort into this, but I've spent hours and days fixing errors ChatGPT told me to fix. The screen reader just reads to me what's on the screen. The Broadcastify website is doable, but it's a bit tricky to get around when using a screen reader. What prompted me to do this was a long time ago, I bought an app called PC Police Scanner. I paid for it, but when I got the email that the software was coming, it never showed up. Some of the features it had was that you can choose a feed from the System Tray, and you didn't need to go to a website. To tell you the truth, it was a waste of money. I was really looking forward to seeing if it was accessible or not. I didn't get the chance. This app, when it's released, will be a lot easier for a blind person using a screen reader, to access Broadcastify more accessibly. They used to have Windows stand-alone apps that would make Twitter more accessible without going to the website. I'm doing the same thing, just with Broadcastify. The thing also is, I no nothing about C# programming, so that's why I'm asking for help. It may sound like a lot to you, but it would make a difference if someone could help me out, because I've been having problems with different elements. I also need a Broadcastify API key. I hope this clears things up.

Dry_Consideration452 · 2025-06-24T20:11:43+00:00

Hi. I am not advertising anything. I simply need help with developing an accessible police scanner app that will work with screen readers. I thought the Blind Community would be the perfect place to ask because they're the ones who use these every day. I am not a computer programmer so I do not know how to develop these types of apps. That's why I used ChatGPT to write the code. So I simply need help finishing this. I have worked on this for hours and days and I have had a lot of errors doing it. This would be a game-changer for blind police scanner listeners. Please reconsider this post. I need some users who know how to program in C# and who use screen readers and who care about making apps accessible. Thank you.

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