Re: [orca-list] Accessible VOIP systems

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I think back sometime as google was going into gtalk I remember seeing 
stuff about jingle but I forgot about it recently. Good constructive 
information about empathy, I will have a look at it and see what I can 
make of it. I am not sure I will be able to solve the contact list issue 
though. It is a bit worrying that the developers don't understand the 
accessibility API of GTK. May be someone from here could help explain 
what is wrong.

Anyway better be going.

Michael Whapples
On 12/03/09 18:49, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> On 03/12/2009 08:05 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > So is there any system I have missed which is worth mentioning? Is 
> > there any other accessible clients other than those mentioned? As SIP 
> > seems to be the only natively accessible system on Linux may be the 
> > orca wiki needs details of using ekiga or linphone.
> Don't forget Jingle, the XMPP voice/video extensions. These allow 
> communication between any clients supporting the feature, and they're 
> what powers gtalk.
>
> Empathy supports this, and is mostly accessible except for one 
> (seemingly minor) issue that makes it practically unusable. Items in 
> the contact list aren't accessible, though just about everything else 
> I tested is. You can arrow through each contact and request info via 
> the context menu, thus figuring out which you're on that way, but this 
> is painful. There is a bug filed here. I nag on it from time to time, 
> but since this would actually be a compelling and accessible VOIP 
> solution were this bug fixed, feel free to nag as well. Maybe more 
> naggers will get this taken more seriously:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545282
>
> I really hope this gets fixed soon. I've tried fixing it myself, but 
> all I've been able to do is change the accessible name of the table as 
> a whole, and I fear I'd have to learn a whole bunch more than I have 
> time to learn about GTK/glib to make any progress. Chats with the 
> developers indicate that they don't understand the accessibility APIs, 
> or that this is some unstated bug in GTK. Either way, it's worrying, 
> especially as empathy is now an official GNOME module, and this one 
> fix should put it squarely in the realm of apps whose accessibility 
> can be improved via Orca scripting.
>
> Anyhow </rant>. Empathy is one of those apps I've wanted to use for 
> quite some time but can't, next to Banshee.