Re: ANNOUNCE: at-spi2-atk 2.8.1 released

On Monday 13 May 2013 17:09:16 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Bob,
>
> The Qt app you are referring to is KMag?  at any rate, any screen reader
> (Orca, some kde based equivalent) uses at-spi2-atk to get accessible names
> and descriptions for gtk based applications.  Orca (which uses gtk) also
> uses that to get accessible names and descriptions from Qt based
> applications if they are exposed by QT_ACCESSIBILITY being set in your
> environment.  at-spi2-atk is not an application itself, but a library that
> other applications use, so installing it, or upgrading it to the latest
> released version on your system isn't likely to change how KMag or
> festival/espeak, etc. work.  It may make orca work better for your case if
> you are using orca, but it shouldn't affect KMag or festival or espeak
> since they don't use that library.  I hope that helps clarify things a bit.
>
> BR,
> 
Thanks for the reply Jeremy. Sorry for the delay in replying, your explanation 
has clarified my confusion. It's really too bad that we can't make all these 
things work co-hesively. Maybe some day, but that doesn't help people like me 
today.

Bob Stia