Re: Accessible Only Desktop Strategy Sought

[Sébastien Sablé <sable users sourceforge net>]

Janina Sajka a écrit :
> Is there a way to use available application data to flag apps that just
> aren't going to be accessible through the AT-SPI? And, if they can be
> flagged, can we then keep them off the application menu entirely? (the
> Alt-F1 menu?).

I don't know how other distributions work, but Debian has a menu system
which already can handle this.

Basically each application has an entry describing it using a few
fields. There is a field called Hints which describes some aspects of
the application. Then a script generates the menu for a user depending
on his preferences and the fields for each application.

The complete description is here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/

All that would be necessary to solve your problem would be to add
"Accessible" in the "Hints" field of accessible applications then
generate a menu. You could then have "Accessible" applications for each
section moved into a specific sub-section (or other behaviors with a
little bit of configuration).

Of course what takes a lot of time is to check each application to see
if it is accessible or not, but the "technical" system is already
existing (at least in Debian).

Bye

--
Sébastien Sablé
http://libbraille.org