Re: [orca-list] Possibly OT -- GUI development in Linux

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 20:05 -0500, Stephen Clower wrote:
> E.J. Zufelt wrote:
> > I could be way off base here, but isn't OpenOffice a Java 
> > Application?  If so accessibility is quite reasonable with Orca from 
> > my perspective.
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> Technically, yes. However, my understanding is that OO uses the AtSpi 
> rather than the JAB to communicate with Orca.
I think the reason OO uses at-spi in gnome is that at-spi provides what
they need. The reason JAB is used on Windows (don't know about Mac) is
that MSAA isn't good enough.
>  It is indeed quite usable 
> on the Linux side, but access on other platforms (E.G. Windows and OSX) 
> is still very poor.
> From what I understand some of the problems on Windows is getting proper
support by the AT. Also I don't know if the JAB on Windows gets quite as
much attention to develop it further.

If the JAB for what ever reason (may it be the JAB itself or the ATs
using the JAB) doesn't properly meet the requirement, whilst discussing
java stuff, what about SWT as that presents itself as a native control?
ATs don't need to support the JAB to access SWT applications, so in
windows I can use eclipse with window-eyes (GW-micro have made it clear
to me that they have no plan to support the JAB).

Michael Whapples
> Best regards,
> Steve