Re: [g-a-devel] Coming to grips with the state of a11y in GNOME

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Piñeiro wrote:

> > - people have also seen gnome-terminal crash with orca
>
> I don't know the details, but I think that Mike Gorse already detected
> and started to work here.

Fwiw, I haven't fixed any crashes in gmone-terminal, nor have I seen it 
crash or heard of it crashing that I can remember. ALl I did was to make 
some changes needed because of the GTK a11y refactor 
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654630). I suspect something 
similar is going on with evolution custom widgets--typically third-party 
apps would fetch the gail type via the atk factory and derive from it, and 
that no longer works. Right now a third-party app has to replicate a whole 
bunch of component/focus-handling code from gtk in order for a custom 
widget to be accessible, since GtkWidgetAccessible and its related classes 
are not currently public, so a class cannot derive from them.

(I'm at a conference and can't write more right now, but it's good to have 
some discussion.)

-Mike