Re: [orca-list] wine and accessibility?

["Alex H." <linuxx64 bashsh gmail com>]

Not going to happen, the best you'll get is self-voicing apps like
audio games, but as for WIE itself being a11y, meh.

Alex

On 3/11/12, Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really really doubt it. Orca can't access apps under Wine because they
> don't use the Linux accessibility APIs and
> Windows screen readers won't work because there are a bunch of missing
> dependencies required to make Windows apps accessible through Wine. I
> just don't see this realistically happening without a lot of work from
> the open source community.
>
>
> >  From what i've heard wine is basically inaccessible. Does anyone know if
> > there's any hope of it becoming accessible?
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