Re: [orca-list] vlc no longer accessible with orca

[Aruni Sharma <aruni100 gmail com>]

Hi, does that mean that applications like skype may be accessible in 
near future?
Thanks,
Aruni.

On 01/21/2009 07:27 PM, Willie Walker wrote:
> The AT-SPI infrastructure is currently being migrated from CORBA to 
> D-Bus:
>
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility
>
> When that work is complete, the infrastructure will be there for QT to 
> participate in accessible solutions. I suspect, however, that there 
> may be a lot of development/debugging/testing needed to complete the 
> job in QT.
>
> Will
>
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
>
> > Hi There
> > Unfortunately, you are correct. As of version 0.9.0 of VLC, the 
> > WXWindows/GTK interface has been dropped, in favor of QT, the reason 
> > that was given was that the developer of the WX interface didn't want 
> > to maintain it anymore. This is a trend I see beginning, and it 
> > worries me. QT doesn't integrate with at-spi as of yet, and so any QT 
> > application remains inaccessible to us. This is why we don't have 
> > access to Skype as well, among other things. With QT's recent 
> > licensing change to the LGPL, I worry we will see a shift further 
> > into QT, further cutting our accessible application options.
> > While we're on the subject... QT 4, in their documentation, claims 
> > they do integrate with at-spi but all other sources sem to indicate 
> > this isn't true. Why would they claim this if it is untrue and, if 
> > it's not, why doesn't orca work with it? Documentation on this seems 
> > to be a bit scarce. What's going on with QT, anyone know?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 20, 2009, at 22:59, Aruni Sharma wrote:
> >
> > > hei listers, VLC used to work very well earlier. however, the 
> > > accessibility seems to have vanished somewhere along the way. I have 
> > > not been able to use it for last few months. if I switch the focus 
> > > to vlc, orca says inaccessible.
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