Re: [orca-list] developing orca

[Victor Tsaran <vtsaran gmail com>]

Out of curiosity, wouldn't FireFTP extension not work for FTP needs?
Regards,
Vic

Rich Burridge wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I'd like to suggest a slightly different way you can help.
> We'd like to make sure that there is at least one GNOME
> accessible application in areas like playing audio, ftp
> transfer, bit-torrent client etc.
>
> There are three Orca bugs open at the moment related
> to this:
>
>
> 424524 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424524>         enh     Nor     NEW     
>         orca    Script support for gftp.
> 424525 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424525>         enh     Nor     NEW     
>         orca    Script support for gnome-blogger
> 424528 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424528>         enh     Nor     NEW     
>         orca    Script support for gnucash.
>
>
> We've also started Orca scripts for applications like rhythmbox and 
> planner.
>
> What would be extremely useful is for somebody to take these applications
> for a drive and report on accessibility/usability problems. If you can 
> file
> bugs in GNOME Bugzilla (against product Orca initially) on the 
> problems you
> find, that would be even better.
>
> At that point, we can evaluate what the problem is, and suggest ways 
> that we
> can fix it. Hopefully we can get the original application maintainers 
> to fix
> their bugs, but if not, we can (if possible) describe how we could 
> work around
> the problem using an Orca application script. At that point we can 
> start helping
> you learn how to write simple Orca python scripts.
>
> Does that sound like something you'd be interested in helping with?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        [orca-list] developing orca
> Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:55:27 +1100 (EST)
> From:   Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>
> To:     orca list <orca-list gnome org>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If I want to work on orca (A bit of scripting and some general stuff...) 
> What 
> do I need to know?
> I would like to help fix bugs make open office, firefox, thunderbird, 
> rythmbox and some other applications more accessible.
> So would I just need to know how to script orca?
>
> Also I want to look into support for "qt" applications.
> Is this possible? Or am I dreaming...?
>
> So what do I need to know? Just python? Are there any apis I should learn?
> I have done some basic C and that is about all.
> So if I need to know python does anyone know of a good book?
>
> I am blind as well so I obviously need a book in an accessible format...
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> --
> Daniel Dalton
>
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
> d dalton iinet net au
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