[orca-list] Some of my thoughts about what has been difficult for getting into orca development and orca scripting

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I said I had some further comments which belonged in their own thread 
which Joannie's interview raised. The one issue of getting people 
involved in writing scripts or may be as developers. I did try some time 
ago to get involved more technically with orca but got a little 
overwhelmed with it and where to really get going. The thing is there 
seems to be a bit of this step from reading docs on python and at-spi, 
etc (thanks Willie for those useful links, they did help), to actually 
working with the orca code. An example of what I got stuck with was if 
looking through the bugs in bugzilla, which may be easy to solve and 
which may be a bit too hard for someone just picking up orca code, is 
there any way we could be pointed to that low hanging fruit to get 
started? As for getting going with scripting, is there anything to help 
guide us through that (eg. a tutorial with example applications to script).

While thinking of documentation, I seem to remember the commercial 
windows offerings push the manuals much more at the user with 
information on how to make the customisations, I don't find orca that 
way. What I mean by this is, I understand the orca wiki 
(http://live.gnome.org/Orca) as the main place to start looking, I don't 
think there is a link for the orca manual there.

Hope that helps give some view of what might help. I am sure there is 
some stuff I could do in that lot as well.

Michael Whapples