Re: [Kde-accessibility] focus tracking
Piñeiro <[email protected]>
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From: Jeremy Whiting <[email protected]> > Adding gnome-accessibility and accessibility to the lists as they are the > ones with the answers in this regard I believe. > > Joanie, we are discussing magnification, and I thought you'd likely know the > answer about the api orca/gnome mag uses that Gunnar mentioned here. Well, I'm not Joanie, but I can start the answer and then she can confirm/complete/correct me. >> > individual user applications, and a special magnification API is used for >> > the communication between a screen reader and the magnifier (so that the >> > screen magnifier does itself not need an AT-SPI implementation. >> >> do you know if the magnification API is going to be kept with / ported to >> AT- >> SPI2? if so, then it would be possible to make use of that API with the >> kwin AFAIK the magnification API is not a AT-SPI(2) issue. Magnification tools has some API defined, and Orca uses to control it (although any other app could try to use it). Current status: * gnome-mag is the current a11y friendly magnification solution in the GNOME Desktop. * It defines an API. * Orca has a "Magnifier" tab to use it. Problems: * Right now this API uses CORBA. And CORBA is deprecated (and hated) * With GNOME-Shell we can't use gnome-mag Work in process: * gnome-mag API migration to DBUS is in progress [3] * It is still a high risk issue, but this last weeks some people volunteered to help. * Joseph Scheuhammer [1] implemented the magnifier feature in gnome-shell. Really cool, and with a really good performance. * It has a DBUS interface to use it, not complete [2] * The idea is that the migrated gnome-mag API and the gnome-shell magnification tool API be the same, so Orca could use both without problems. >> magnification desktop effect (when used as an a11y aid) and when AT-SPI2 >> becomes available, nothing in kwin's code would need to change. but that >> relies on the magnification API remaining stable ... (which i hope it >> would, >> for the sake of other magnifiers out there) As I have just said, AFAIK, the magnifier tools API wouldn't be present in AT-SPI2 directly. But, other people involved (Mike Gorse, Joanie) can confirm/complete all this. BR [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification [2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification#D-Bus [3] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GNOME3#gnome-mag_.28port_to_D-Bus.29 === API ([email protected])