Re: [orca-list] Remote access to gnome, still looking for a solution

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Michael:

There was some work done in the AT-SPI infrastructure to allow 
different users on the same machine to display apps on the same server 
(e.g., run a GUI app as root on in your session).  In order for this to 
work, both users need to have accessibility enabled and the foreign 
user displaying to the system needs to have the magic ~/.orbitrc file 
as described in http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin.

So...I'll admit I'm ignorant of just what *exactly* the at-spi is doing 
this case.  As such, take the following with a grain of salt.  I wonder 
if it might be possible to set up your remote user with a11y enabled 
and the ~/.orbitrc file and then have it present on your DISPLAY?  The 
parameters in the remote user's ~/.orbitrc file might need to be 
tweaked -- you can read more about them in the "Which parameters are 
supported by CORBA_ORB_init()?" section of 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/orbit-faq/faq/faq.html.

I'm curious if this will work...

Will

On Jan 29, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:

> Hello,
> I previously asked about how one who uses a screen reader may access a
> remote gnome system and got some responses. Unfortunately though I have
> e-mailed both Sina Bahram and Mike Grace about the remote access bridge
> but haven't got a response.
>
> I am now thinking along other lines. How possible might it be to have
> orca use speech-dispatcher on a different system, set per user (eg. is
> there a setting which can be altered in orca user settings to allow the
> IP of the speech-dispatcher to be used, and this might mean the
> individuals who use orca remotely need to always use the same machine,
> or may be it could be set by a script run on login). If
> speech-dispatcher and orca can't do this, would it be possible to use
> something like ESD (something else might be better) and use that to get
> the audio off the system (like in the communication I was describing
> between orca and speech-dispatcher in the previous suggestion).
>
> Any other thoughts that might solve this?
>
> Michael Whapples
>
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