Re: [orca-list] Orca and wxWidgets

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Michael!  I'd also encourage users on this list that need access 
to wxWidgets to contact the wxWidget developers directly and encourage 
the wxWidgets developers to test for accessibility.

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> I am talking from a bit ago, and I was using WX through the python
> bindings (wxpython), but I found it was not fully accessible. The
> problem seemed to be that while it uses native toolkits (GTK on linux)
> it created some custom controls to make the widgets look closer to each
> other on the different platforms, so there were some which did not work
> (orca reported panel only). I believe WX itself has a way to reveal
> accessibility information, but at the time wxpython did not seem to give
> access to this and I don't know whether this functionality would even
> work on linux.
>
> There are some controls which work fine, so it depends on what you plan
> to do, but at the time I was looking at it, the WX treeview didn't work,
> so this might rule out quite a number of GUIs.
>
> All I can suggest is try it, see if it works for what you need. As I
> remember the demo tool was useful to test the different widgets.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 18:01 -0800, mohaned1 wrote:
> > Hey all, I have a question. How accessible is the wxWidgets library? 
> > Meaning, if an application is using wxWidgets and sticks to standard 
> > controls, will that application work reasonably well with Orca? 
>
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