If you'd like to know a bit more about Orca and how it works to make Linux accessible with speech you might want to listen to an interview we did with the developers for our radio show / podcast "Eyes OnSuccess". Below is a brief description of the episode along with links to the program and associated show notes: 1222 5-30-12 Orca, Gnome and Accessibility in Linux You can join our listener forum to get announcements of upcoming shows by sending an e-mail to: EyesOnSuccess+Subscribe Googlegroups com If you want to find out more about the show, listen to episodes from our extensive archive, etc, go to: We’ve also done several shows about Vinux, including a recent one on the latest Vinux 4.0 release. Enjoy! --Pete Check out Eyes On Success (formerly ViewPoints) A weekly, half hour audio program for people living with low vision Find out more about the show and get links to the podcasts at: Like us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/EyesOnSuccess Follow us on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/@_EyesOnSuccess Subscribe to the listener forum by sending an e-mail to: EyesOnSuccess+Subscribe GoogleGroups com Send suggestions or comments to: -----Original Message----- Hi Anders, No, that would not be possible based on how Orca works. There is a world of difference between the graphical toolkits, libraries, and APIs used on the Mac and those used by Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. Mac OS uses a graphical toolkit called Cocoa which is proprietary to Apple products, and isn't compatible with Orca in any way, shape, or form. I'm no expert on how Orca works precisely, but I gather that at-spi acts as an accessibility bridge between Orca and your graphical desktop and applications. That is to say that GTK+ applications communicate their onscreen information through at-spi to Orca, and Qt apps do likewise via the qt-at-spi library. Therefore any GUI application such as those for Mac that use Cocoa would not be accessible because they do not use at-spi and the rest of the accessibility stack required by Orca to gather onscreen information. Cheers! On 7/9/13, Anders Holmberg <anders pipkrokodil se> wrote: > Hi! > Just for curiosity, would it be possible to port orca to read the mac > graphical interface? > Its unix based so i guess it would work if someone would try to recompile it > for mac. > Though its not needed because of voiceover. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp |