Re: does AT-SPI or ATK help me for client side accessibility of GTK

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 07/21/2011 07:16 AM, mmb wrote:
> hi ,thanks for replying
>   As you are saying "accessibility support on Windows is not
> ATK/AT-SPI based. One solution could be create a kind of ATK-IA2 bridge,
> but as far as I know, nobody is doing that."
> I am using windows XP OS and Monodevelop and CODEBLOCKS IDE's for developing
> GTK applications.
> I am new to this technology,i have basic idea how GTK applications are
> developed ,but what i want is
> For Ex:  i have to  develop a screen reader in GTK ,when i point the mouse
> cursor over any GTK application which is not deveoped by me i want to get
> the widget name which i am pointing".

You can do that, but as I said on Linux.

> For doing this on Windows platform i tried using UI Automation Technology
> but it is failing to give widget name of any GTK child in a window.So can i
> get any DLL's or Interfaces or something else for AT-spi/ATK (whichever is
> meant for client side accessibility of GTK ) which i can use to develop my
> screen reader.

GTK doesn't have UI Automation support at all.

> one last thing does ATK will help for client side accessibility or AT-SPI
> will help or none of them is supporting  windows platform...
I don't fully understand that question. Anyway, if your question is 
something like "Is it possible to use current GTK accessibility support 
on Linux to implement an accessibility support on Windows?", I already 
answered that on my previous mail.

IMHO, the easiest way could be implement a kind of ATK-IA2 bridge, as 
ATK and IA2 are really similar in other aspects. Probably there are 
other options, but I'm not really experienced with Windows a11y 
framework to wonder one. Anyway, any of those options would be a trivial 
task.

BR


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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias