Re: [orca-list] Orca scripting, how much can be done

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Thanks for this information, I think the learning of at-spi will be the
main thing for me. Hopefully that link will be helpful, have to try and
find the time to have a good read of it.

Michael whapples
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:32 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > How much can be done to improve the accessibility of an application by
> > using scripting? 
>
> You can do lots of things with scripting as long as the application and 
> toolkit are somewhat good AT-SPI citizens.  Even if they aren't good 
> citizens, but still participate in the AT-SPI, you can do a fair amount. 
>   I might conjecture that a lot of what we actually do in Orca is to 
> script to accommodate those that really aren't good citizens.  :-)
>
> In order to script well, you really need a decent foundation in AT-SPI. 
>   Accerciser is a useful tool to help you with this, and there's a good 
> Linux Journal article on it here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9991.
>
>  From there, you can look at the existing Orca scripts (they live under 
> src/orca/scripts/*.py in the Orca source tree) as well as the default 
> script which lives in src/orca/default.py.
>
> Then, there's always here and the #orca channel on irc.gnome.org, where 
> questions are welcome and we even answer them when we have time.  :-)
>
> Hope this helps get you started!
>
> Will