Re: Dasher accessibility integration

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Hi Matthew:

> Text editing is awkward until we deal with the ability to send arbitrary 
> characters to applications in a fairly sane manner - the X input stuff 
> available to applications is an awkward bugger to work with if you're 
> not a keyboard (Dasher has no real concept of capital letters, for 
> instance - they're all the same to it, so faffing about sending shifts 
> and as doesn't work terribly well). The accessibility library has a 
> documented API for sending UTF-8 characters, but it's not implemented 
> yet. ...

I'm on this now.  Might have something before GU4DEC.

> It'd be good to talk about this stuff at Gu4dec - how many of the 
> accessibility people are in Dublin before Monday? Some sort of BOF on 
> this sort of thing might be interesting.

I'll be here of course ;-)  When are you getting in?

- Bill

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