Re: [Accessibility] Plan for making QT applications accessible to Orca?

[Bill Cox <waywardgeek gmail com>]

Hi, Halim and Mark.  If some help is needed to work on the qt-at-spi
bridge, please let me know.  I can ask some Vinux volunteers if they
would be willing to help, and I have some interest in helping myself.

I think Mark can probably enlighten us as to what's actually going on
under the hood in the IA2 interface to QT.  My understanding is that
it's a Linux-only interface, so it's not really IA2.  It wont support
very much of the MSAA interface, for instance, which in theory is a
subset of IA2.  Uninformed programmers like myself have theorised that
it might make more sense to merge qt-at-spi directly into the IA2
interface in QT, as it's really just the Linux accessibility
interface, but that's a completely uninformed opinion.

Bill

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Halim Sahin <halim sahin freenet de> wrote:
> Hi,
> It seems that marc needs some help to finish this work.
> three commits in 8 months.
> Are you sure that he will continue that work in the future?
>
> In my point of view using ia2 under linux is a big mistake.
> We have already a working a11y infrastructure (atk).
> So it makes no sense to create a second api.
> In general it's painfull that qt apps are inaccessible for a long time.
> And using ia2 will not speedup things because they need to bridge to
> at-spi.
> So the better approach would be to write a new screenreader which
> understands ia2 directly or switch to atk natively in qt itself.
>
>
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