Re: [orca-list] Orca and D-Bus

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 08:33 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Jason pretty much has it right. :-)
>
> To expand upon this, however, I'll often refer to this as the "Bonobo  
> Deprecation" task for GNOME. As outlined in the following WIKI page,  
> this task covers AT-SPI, Magnification, and Speech:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/BonoboDeprecation
Even I had the confusion about this, thanks for the url.
> Magnification and Speech will require work in Orca since the Orca code  
> talks directly to some CORBA API's.  For speech, the proposed path is  
> deprecating gnome-speech in favor of the current support for  
> SpeechDispatcher.  

Ah, that rings bells in my ears.
With speech dispatcher, the current state of accessibility with orca is
very very stattering and before one word is complete the other word
starts.  This specially happens when navigating between widgets or
between menus.  speech is cluttered.
I along with many people reported this behaviour when using orca with
SD.  I can only hope that this problem is fixt before the big step is
taken.  I would be happy if this is solved by the end of this spring.

I also recall that I offered to learn orca scripting if a proper manual
is provided.  Wil had told me that such a manual will be available once
the migration to dbus is complete.  This is what I am waiting for, so
that I too can contribute to orca.


I believe that a lot of orca scripts will change as a result of this big
modification.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.