Re: [orca-list] Can applications communicate directly with orca?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
There used to be an orca server which applications could communicate 
with. I know very little of this other than the firevox plugin supported 
it in the past and I believe that this feature is disabled by default in 
orca now (if not actually removed).

The reason your attempt failed is that you imported the orca speech 
script from another python shell, so the two were unrelated and so 
couldn't communicate.

Here are some of my thoughts on the sort of thing you are doing:
1. If the application is not gnome specific (IE. could run on another 
desktop, may be doesn't even need an X session) then speech-dispatcher 
might be a better option as it will be relevant for more users.
2. If it is gnome specific then it may be best to make the application 
properly accessible to orca, either through orca scripting or GTK's 
accessibility API or even a combination of the two.

The only advantage that using orca's server (if still existing) would be 
that all orca speech settings will be maintained, however the second 
option for if it is a gnome-specific application sees to that.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Hi,
> I thought this might be possible by importing orca.speech, but when I
> did:
> orca.speech.speak("Hello world")
> nothing happened.  There was no error, so something worked, but it
> didn't speak.
> So, is it possoble to make apps communicate directly with Orca?
> Thanks
> Storm
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