Re: [orca-list] Skype's not accessible, but...

[Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de>]

Hi,

On Di, Sep 04 2007, Christopher Gray wrote:

> Is there an understanding of why Skype is so inaccessible on Linux?

Thats because Skype uses QT for the GUI, allthough QT-based GUIs aren't
accessible with screenreaders yet.

> Is this something that can be addressed in time with Orca scripting?

Nope, no chance. You have to wait until QT4 apps are accessible with
orca at all.

> My first guess is that the QT4 dependency could be a problem because
> it seems to be related to KDE rather than Gnome?

No, it's related to QT rather than GTK.

cheers

  Henning

PS: I'm reading the mailing list, so Cc'ing me isn't necessary.