Re: [orca-list] Orca & Zoomtext

[Trevor Saunders <trev saunders gmail com>]

Hi,

> > Second question...  Is there a port of Orca to other platforms like
> > Windows or Macintosh?
>
> No.  Nor would it make sense.  Orca depends upon AT-SPI, and that
> doesn't exist on Windows or Macintosh.  IAccessible2 exists on
> Windows - the closest equivalent to AT-SPI - but it isn't universal
> there as it is on GNOME.

I'm just throwing this out there as a strange terrible idea that
probably won't work.  I noticed the last time I installed cygwin that
some atk stuff got pulled in, I didn't look to see exactly how much or
what, but it seems theoretically possible for orca to work with linux
apps built against cygwin.  There is also the uia -> atk bridge for
mono, while I don't know that this would help with native apps it
seems possible that one could run a c# app in mono in cygwin and if
one has built all the linux accessibility stuff have it use orca as a
screen reader.   Again this isn't useful to the problem, and is a
absolutely terrible idea that probably shouldn't be pointed out, but
it maybe posible.

Trev

> NVDA is the closest thing to an "Orca port" on Windows: an open
> source screen reader written in Python that uses published APIs (vs.
> screen scraping) to obtain the necessary information to re-present
> the screen to blind users in speech & Braille.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> > Thanks,
> > Bryen M Yunashko
> > GNOME-A11y Outreach
> >
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