Re: UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for the blind)

Hi Gareth,

correct.

All information you need is available via Accessibility API.

Orca's (GNOME Screen Reader) support for OOo is completely based on this.

Malte.

Gareth Collins wrote, On 12/01/10 15:17:
> Hi Malte,
> 
> Thanks for your e-mail.
> 
> OLE Automation would be perfect for our scripting language (which includes
> the LuaCOM library). 
> 
> So are you saying that via OLE Automation I can for instance access the UNO
> Accessibility API's XAccessibleTextAttributes interface to allow the screen
> reader to speak the default paragraph and character attributes of a section
> of text, or access the XAccessibleTable interface's getAccessibleRowCount or
> getAccessibleCellAt methods to allow the screen reader to speak formatting
> information about tables in a Writer document?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Gareth Collins
> Product Support Group
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malte Timmermann [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:01 AM
> To: [email protected]; Gareth Collins
> Subject: Re: [api-dev] UNO Accessibility API and Windows screen readers (for
> the blind)
> 
> Hi Gareth,
> 
> there are different language bindings available: C++, Java, C#, OLE
> Automation.
> 
> I guess/hope one of these can be used from your scripting language?
> 
> Malte.
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> Gareth Collins wrote, On 11/30/10 17:40:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I work for Dolphin Computer Access, a company that makes screen 
>> readers to enable blind computer users to access Windows-based PCs.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Our screen reader, Supernova, has a scripting engine based on the Lua 
>> programming language to enable us to customize our screen reader to 
>> work with a wide variety of Windows-based applications.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Therefore I’m wondering if the OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit 
>> comes with any Windows DLLs that will provide our scripting engine 
>> with an interface/bridge to Open Office’s UNO Accessibility API? (As 
>> our scripting engine can call and retrieve the results from any 
>> function in any third-party Windows DLL).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> *Gareth Collins*
>> *Product Support Group*
>>
>> Dolphin logo
>> *Dolphin Computer Access Inc.,*
>> 231 Clarksville Road,
>> Suite 3,
>> Princeton Junction
>> NJ 08850
>>
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