Re: Metacity and ATK (call for assistance)

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

metacity needs to know whether accessibility support is enabled or not and load 
the required accessibility modules. For GNOME applications there is code in 
libgnome/libgnome/gnome-program.c which determines whether the accessibility 
gconf key is set and if so, loads the modules gail, atk-bridge and gail-gnome. 
metacity is not a GNOME program but it would need to execute similar code; 
loading gail-gnome should not be necessary but loading the other modules would 
be.

If this is done speaking the Alt-space menu ought to work,

Padraig

> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120025 for the metacity
> bug.
> 
> Metacity does not currently do anything special for ATK; the result is
> that on Alt-tab, keyboard workspace switch, using Alt-space to bring up
> the window menu, and probably other places no speech is possible with
> screen readers.
> 
> It would be nice to fix this bug for Gnome 2.4, but nobody working on
> metacity has any clue as to what we need to do to fix this.  If someone
> involved with assistance technologies in Gnome could point me to the
> appropriate API references and explain what's required (and in
> particular why the Alt-space menu doesn't work; it's just a regular old
> gtk menu) I'd like to implement this support for metacity.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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