[orca-list] Orca and calendar apps

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
Does orca work well with any calendar apps? I know that orca works with 
evolution for email and contacts so I had a look at its calendar 
features (the accessible applications section of the orca wiki indicates 
that evolution calendar might work although the details page gives no 
info on the calender). While it seems like evolution may be useable for 
calendar I believe it really needs better scripting (particular area I 
noticed problems was day selection). I also looked at mozilla's sunbird 
(in both the form of the iceowl package in debian and a nightly snapshot 
from the mozilla website) but didn't have much joy with that either.

As I said the day selection seemed to be an issue, is there anything I 
should know to improve it? If there is nothing currently there to 
improve my experience with using evolution's calendar here is what I 
would hope to get when using a calendar app (not being able to see 
evolution I don't know whether evolution shows this info or not):
When the calendar is in month view as I move around orca should say the 
date of the day moved to. Also should there be an appointment on that 
date it should alert me to the fact that there is an appointment (may be 
not give details just alert me to the fact). An example of speech output 
might be:
"27 April 2009, Has appointment" or for a day with no appointments "28 
April 2009"
If I then enter the day to view the contents orca will speak some 
details of the appointments (eg. start time, subject, end time). If the 
day view gets moved to another day then orca will speak what day has 
been moved to.

As I said I have not seen what evolution shows, so may be the above 
doesn't fit perfectly for evolution. My description is mainly based on 
my experience with talks and the calendar on my nokia phone, but if you 
describe how evolution works may be I can describe better how I would 
want orca to work.

Michael Whapples