Re: [orca-list] Accessible Chess - Orca and XBoard

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Nalin.

Please open a bug in GNOME's bugzilla describing the issue. I'm
traveling for business at the moment, but I'd like to see the issue
we're trying to solve and what alternatives might exist.

--joanie

On 07/10/2015 07:08 AM, Nalin.x.Linux wrote:
> Dear orca developers,
>       I am working on XBoard Gtk to make it accessible. The version that
> use TTS to announce the information is being tested by my visually
> impaired friends.  As you know, using TTS is not a good method, so I
> just created a solution by setting accessible description, so that
> screen reader can say it. Unfortunately this demands a minor change in
> orca screen reader code also(scripts/default.py). The patch is attached
> with this mail. Maybe we have to provide a check box option in orca to
> enable this. 
>
> Quick way to compile accessible XBoard :
> sudo apt-get install fairymax texinfo libgtk-3-dev build-essential
> git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/xboard.git
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/xboard.git>
> git checkout gtk3
> autoreconf --install
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> sudo make install   
>
> Please let me this amendment is feasible or not. Expecting an early
> reply Nalin. 
>
>
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