Mastodawn

Given this is now released, I'm happy to report that the third-party control client for the Elgato Streamdeck, called OpenDeck, is now a lot more accessible for #screenReader and keyboard-only users.
These devices have always had a huge #accessibility barrier in that the only way to assign an action to a key was through a drag-and-drop interface. Elgato has been notified about this, but proved ... let's say ... less than ehtusiastic to fix it. So, I did.

While I can't claim 100% accessibility, primarily because that isn't a thing, I can say I made sure everything I could find was labeled, and that there's now a keyboard-only way of associating buttons, knobs, and touch controls with actions, something the official client does not, and probably will not, support.

I'll be making a video on the ViewpointUnseen youtube channel with all the details soon.

https://github.com/nekename/opendeck

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Jakob Rosin 3d ago

@zersiax This is fantastic. I've thought of the stream deck for a while, haven't found enough usecases to justify it though. What do you use it for?

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Florian

@jakobrosin This might completely blow your mind but primarily ... streaming :) It's very convenient to quickly call up specific settings in programs like OBS, Spotify, my Hue lights and such.
I could see it in a broader sense for just having buttons you can punch that always do the same thing so you don't have to remember hotkeys though, or a sample player for radio makers, it can macro so you could add a bunch of actions you routinely do over and over to a single key etc

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Jakob Rosin 3d ago

@zersiax I suspected you are using it for streaming haha. Yeah I was imagining it to be very useful for macros and controlling radio broadcasts