Re: [orca-list] Live regions in a non-web application?

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Carolyn.

> I am one of the developers of Eclipse. I work on the SWT team. We are
> trying to enable improved accessibility support for the next release
> of Eclipse. 

Awesome. BTW, thanks to you and your team for the super-fast turn around
time on providing fixes for some recent bugs filed by Orca users. I, for
one, really appreciate it.

> This little test works with JAWS on Windows. But Orca does not
> announce changes in the label. What is Orca looking for in this
> situation? Is it possible that Orca only looks for live regions in web
> applications or browsers?

That's what's going on. Orca's live region support was implemented for
Gecko a few years ago. I'm in the process of doing various and sundry
refactoring in Orca, and it sounds like I need to add generalizing live
region support to my list. :-)

> Before I start learning Git and Python <grin>

Heheh. I was just thinking that I probably need to start learning
Eclipse. <grin> Perhaps we could meet in the middle somewhere.

Due to having a DayJob which is not, alas, working on Orca, I cannot
look into any of this at the moment. Having said that.... If you could
file a bug against Orca in GNOME's bugzilla about this issue, I'll add
it to my list.

Thanks in advance, and thanks for asking!
--Joanie, Orca maintainer/lead