Re: [orca-list] Orca and Audacity

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi Christian
Orca's issues with Audacity actually stem from the Wxwidgets toolkit  
audacity uses. Wx is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that, on UNIX-like  
systems, bridges to GTK. Basically, it allows apps to look and feel  
native on all platforms WX supports. However, certain controls in WX  
do not report their accessibility properly, one particular control of  
note is the Panel, as it does not allow access to the controls  
contained with in the panel control as it should. Audacity uses a lot  
of panel controls, so it makes getting some information rather  
difficult. You can get buy using flat review, but it takes practice.


On Aug 6, 2009, at 08:30, Christian wrote:

> Hi all,
> Are there any planns to improve Orca's accessibility of Audacity?
> I have currently been able to record but not find out what track has  
> focus and so on.
> Many thanks,
> Christian
>
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