[orca-list] orca and QT

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I know this topic comes up from time to time, but I found a few
interesting things which prompt these questions.

I have noticed that in the QT 4.3 documentation it says that
accessibility has been improved and covers MSAA, the mac accessibility
system and also AT-SPI. Having noticed this, I downloaded QT4.3.3 in a
lot of hope, but when I ran a QT4 application nothing accept orca
telling me not accessible when I alt-tabbed to the application. After a
bit more research I found http://chaos.troll.no/~harald/qdbusaccessible
which makes QT4 accessible through an IAccessible implementation on
dbus. That website says to export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 which I did (also
at this point I had installed that qdbusaccessible plugin), and then
loading the QT4 app did put a message to the gnome-terminal screen I
launched it from, which said something about loading the dqbusaccessible
plugin.

Having a look in the QT4 plugins directory revealed no plugin which I
could make out to be relevant as a AT-SPI plugin (I mean nothing as in
the file names gave no indication of that). I know that the
qdbusaccessible plugin is doing something as dbus-monitor gave messages
about the application.

So what is the state of orca/at-spi with gaining access to QT
applications? Is that note in the QT4.3 documentation mis-leading or is
it right and where can the at-spi plugin be got? No searching of the
internet has really answered this for sure, there just seemed to be a
lot of talk but very little in the way of results.

From
Michael Whapples