Re: [orca-list] Orca scripting, how much can be done

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> How much can be done to improve the accessibility of an application by
> using scripting? 

You can do lots of things with scripting as long as the application and 
toolkit are somewhat good AT-SPI citizens.  Even if they aren't good 
citizens, but still participate in the AT-SPI, you can do a fair amount. 
 I might conjecture that a lot of what we actually do in Orca is to 
script to accommodate those that really aren't good citizens.  :-)

In order to script well, you really need a decent foundation in AT-SPI. 
 Accerciser is a useful tool to help you with this, and there's a good 
Linux Journal article on it here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9991.

From there, you can look at the existing Orca scripts (they live under 
src/orca/scripts/*.py in the Orca source tree) as well as the default 
script which lives in src/orca/default.py.

Then, there's always here and the #orca channel on irc.gnome.org, where 
questions are welcome and we even answer them when we have time.  :-)

Hope this helps get you started!

Will