Re: [g-a-devel]gail patch ...

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com>]

Michael said:

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>	Also; I'm concerned that work is going into 'ferret' inside 
>gail, but that this would be best placed to test the hierarchy inside 
>at-spi or even libgail-gnome, since then we can fully test the 
>framework. Are there any plans to move it there ? it looks like it 
>duplicates and out-classes the festival support in simple-at.
>
>	Regards,
>
>		Michael.


Hi:

Ferret serves a different purpose from at-spi.  For one thing, it serves 
as a demonstration vehicle for accessibility that requires less of the 
software stack, which sometimes is a good thing.

Eventually we would indeed like to write a ferret look-alike for at-spi. 
However even once that's done, the existing gail/test/ferret should 
stay, because though it's important to have integration tests like those 
in at-spi, gail's ferret serves as both a module test for gail and a 
tool for exploring applications and assessing their accessibility.

The festival support used by at-spi tests and demos will be migrating to 
gnome-speech as that module (gnome-speech) matures.  In the meantime the 
somewhat hacked-together text-to-speech support in festival and 
simple-at serves a purpose but probably shouldn't have more time 
invested unless we need a particular feature for a demo.

Regards,

-Bill

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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland