Re: How to provide input to the screen reader in a Tk application?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Aivar.

Orca works entirely based on interacting with AT-SPI2. Thus there is no
way to provide direct input to it.

Sorry!
--joanie

On 3/13/19 1:16 PM, Aivar Annamaa via gnome-accessibility-list wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a Python+Tkinter application (https://thonny.org) for which I'd
> like to add some screen-reader support. Unfortunately Tk doesn't provide
> required information to at-spi
> (https://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview?name=0e294d9604 and
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2013-September/003480.html).
>
>
> I found Tka11y (https://pypi.org/project/Tka11y/) based on Papi
> (http://ocemp.sourceforge.net/papi.html), but they haven't been updated
> for a while. When I tried a minimal example with my Python 2.7 I got
> core dump.
>
> Do you know any  other options?
>
> Can I somehow provide direct input to the screen reader without
> involving a widget toolkit at all? For example, can I send a text to
> narrate whenever the user moves from one line to another in the editor?
>
> best regards,
> Aivar
>
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