Re: [Accessibility] Re: [Kde-accessibility] focus tracking

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Joseph Scheuhammer <clown utoronto ca> wrote:
> The key phrase here is "Magnification relies on Orca now to provide
> focus details".  A longer term goal is to break that dependency.

That's my worry: you're trying to break a dependency that users probably don't
mind having in the first place, without any real practical benefit.
 
> >>  Can you explain thisdifficulty?
> >It's deeply integrated into the Orca scripts specific to applications. While
> >it could be abstracted, I assume this would involve writing separate extension
> >modules per application
> 
> Are those specific to applications in general?  Or specific to
> specific applications -- a script for FireFox, another for
> OpenOffice, and so on?  If the latter, then I agree that it would be
> very difficult, if not impossible, to create a separate *general*
> focus tracking module.

It's the latter, i.e., Orca provides scripts specific to applications such as
OpenOffice, Firefox, etc., and those scripts can manipulate focus, implement
heuristics to decide what to read, etc. I suspect Willie's original point was
that it would be counterproductive to duplicate this work.