gtk accessibility on win32

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

Hello all,

I need to make the win32 version of my gtk app accessible, in 
particular for the visually impaired (vocalization of menus and so 
on).  After googling some I have an initial notion of how to proceed, 
but I'd much appreciate any comments from those who know more about 
the technology.  Here are my current assumptions:

1. I need atk.  That's fine, Tor Lillqvist has given us an atk.dll.

2. Looks like I need GAIL, according to the logic set out at

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/

So I need to port gail to win32, right?  But I guess I don't need 
libgail-gnome, since it is gnome-specific and my app is "pure" GTK.

3. Then I need to make something like a port of atk-bridge, and I need 
to find the part of atk-bridge where it actually talks to a speech 
synthesizer (is it in fact atk-bridge that does that?) and 
add/substitute a component that talks to, say, the Windows speech API 
(as implemented in sapi.dll)

(Of course, if I succeed in this I'll contribute the code to 
GTK/gnome, if it's wanted.)

--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC