Re: [g-a-devel] x3270 terminal emulator + accessibility

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Pedro:

It's great to have you on board, welcome!

One thing you might want to look at closely is that we are in the 
process of adding a new interface to AT-SPI/ATK, specifically designed 
to help assistive technologies interface better with virtual terminals.  
This is the "Terminal" interface, and it's described in some draft 
documentation at:

http://gnome.org/~billh/at-spi-new-idl/html/html/interfaceAccessibility_1_1Terminal.html

The plan is to create an AtkTerminal interface that maps directly to 
AT-SPI's proposed Accessibility::Terminal interface, so your new x3270 
emulator would need to implement this interface (AtkTerminal).  The 
current plan calls for making this new interface available in the 
gnome-2.16 time frame, that is, in about 6 months.

Best regards,

Bill

Pedro de Medeiros wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently studying the possibility of making the x3270 terminal
> emulator ( http://x3270.bgp.nu/ ) gnopernicus-aware. I believe this is
> possible implementing the atk interface inside the x3270 application.
>
> On the other hand, there is more to accessibility than just making
> your applications talk. x3270 was not planned to use these
> technologies, while GNOME apps inherit them without much trouble
> (high-contrast themes, gnopernicus). But to do that, a interface
> rewrite of the 3270 terminal for GNOME is required.
>
> I know I should not take this task lightly, so I am looking for a head
> start. Is there such an effort already in progress? If I try to use
> libvte, I think it will need some hacking to use sockets, and probably
> some more to make it more responsive with gnopernicus (at least, this
> seems to be the case when I use gnome-terminal with gnopernicus).
>
> Cheers.
> --
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