[g-a-devel] Accessibility of ibus modules

["Nalin.x.Linux" <nalin x linux gmail com>]

Dear list,

I am Nalin from kerala/India, i am currently on the process of creating an ibus-engine for braille layout as part of google summer of code 2014 under the organisation swathanthra malayalam computing.It seems that orca screen reader is not announcing ibus-events such as expansion of preedit_string ,lookuptable etc. Currently we solved issue for ibus-sharada-braille engin using python-espeak api. Me with my mentor Samuel thibault discussed about this and we found various ways as follows

1 - make the ibus module speak by itself

2 - make the ibus module show a status bar where it writes what it wants to get spoken

3 - invent a new "input module" role, and events related to what an input module typically does (word expansion, word deletion, etc.)

4 - is there any way to register text event to at-spi via creating invisible accessible object ??

In this scenario please let us know what are the things we have to put forward to make ibus layouts accessible for screen reader users.

Expecting response nalin.

https://github.com/Nalin-x-Linux/ibus-sharada-braille

http://ibus-sharada-braille.blogspot.in/