Re: [orca-list] Webkit

["Alex Midence" <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, Joannie,

Thanks for responding.  How likely is it that they would do so?  Is that feature hard for them to implement?  
Is there a way for Orca to create a sort of artificial caret or work with the mouse pointer in some way to 
overcome this?  Perhaps, a way to approach it would be a patch to webkit gtk itself to have something 
introduce a caret after the fact?  It sounds like we are pretty much at the mercy of the application 
developers to kindly agree to change their apps for us one at a time or am I misunderstanding?  Sorry about 
the questions again.  This is something I've struggled to understand for some time now.  I was thinking that 
there ought to be something that at-spi or orca or libatk could do to make this happen so it's a more 
centralized process less dependent on whether or not we can talk devs into modifying their code for us once 
the library they use does the heavy lifting.  What happens when we run into a handy app that is common and 
necessary but it's written by somebody unwilling to change their code or who doesn't know and hasn't got the 
time to learn how to do so?

Thanks.
Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdiggs igalia com] 
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 4:28 PM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: orca-list
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Webkit

Hey Alex.

What we need each WebKitGtk app to do is make caret navigation possible.
Doing so should not be too difficult, as far as I am aware. WebKitGtk supports it and does all the heavy 
lifting; the app itself would just need to make its use something you could turn on, e.g. by pressing F7.
If those apps would do this, a lot more of them would just work with Orca without much (and possibly without 
any) work needing to be done within Orca. Wouldn't that be cool?

Take care.
--joanie

On 04/23/2012 03:56 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Hi, Joannie,
>
> I was wondering if you could tell me if there are any definitive plans 
> to improve the accessibility of Webkit applications in the near 
> future.  I don't just mean browsers though Epiphany and Chrome would 
> be nice but, rather other things that rely on Webkit would be nice to 
> be able to use.  Gwibber social client Anjuta's devhelper area, 
> anything that gives the "html content" message and can't be navigated 
> with flat review or otherwise.  I'm guessing there's a minimalist 
> webkit plugin out there that people use much like they do with 
> Scintilla Editor on some Ides and just pop it in whenever they want to 
> display html content in their application for some reason.  If I'm 
> right, are there any plans on the books to get those components 
> working with Orca?
>
> sorry for all the questions,
> Alex M