accessibility question

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj harvee org>]

hope this is the right place for asking questions about accessibility 
specifically accessibility using speech recognition with GTK+ based 
applications.

In their infinite wisdom, scansoft (current owners of NaturallySpeaking) 
have made it impossible to use their speech recognition package with 
anything but a limited set of window edit controls.  Even Microsoft 
applications need special adapters in order to work with scansoft 
NaturallySpeaking.

I got to wondering (as my throbbing hands would let me do nothing else) 
if it would be possible to create a generalized interface for GTK+ 
libraries and automatically provide some degree of accessibility with 
NaturallySpeaking.

I am researching what it would take to do this from the 
NaturallySpeaking side.  It will be wonderful if someone was interested 
enough to take this project on and create the code that is physically 
impossible for some of us to write.

---eric