Re: gtk accessibility on win32




Um have you had anyone try your program on win32 with a windows screen 
reader that might already work for visually impared.

KenOn Wed, 15 Sep 2004, 
Allin Cottrell wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I need to make the win32 version of my gtk app accessible, in 
> particular for the visually impaired (vocalization of menus and so 
> on).  After googling some I have an initial notion of how to proceed, 
> but I'd much appreciate any comments from those who know more about 
> the technology.  Here are my current assumptions:
> 
> 1. I need atk.  That's fine, Tor Lillqvist has given us an atk.dll.
> 
> 2. Looks like I need GAIL, according to the logic set out at
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/
> 
> So I need to port gail to win32, right?  But I guess I don't need 
> libgail-gnome, since it is gnome-specific and my app is "pure" GTK.
> 
> 3. Then I need to make something like a port of atk-bridge, and I need 
> to find the part of atk-bridge where it actually talks to a speech 
> synthesizer (is it in fact atk-bridge that does that?) and 
> add/substitute a component that talks to, say, the Windows speech API 
> (as implemented in sapi.dll)
> 
> (Of course, if I succeed in this I'll contribute the code to 
> GTK/gnome, if it's wanted.)
> 
> --
> Allin Cottrell
> Department of Economics
> Wake Forest University, NC
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