Re: [orca-list] Orca and touch screen support

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Probably some good stuff to be gleaned from there.  The trouble with the
Android and Windows stuff is going to be that At-Spi will quite likely have
a completely different approach to things and it will be hard to find the
common ground from which to start.  



-----Original Message-----
From: Josh [mailto:joshknnd1982 gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:00 PM
To: Alex Midence; 'Luke Yelavich'; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and touch screen support

NVDA also supports touch screens.


using windows7 laptop

On 1/14/2014 4:39 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> I wonder what is involved in supporting such an input method with Orca.
> Probably need to look at Talkback and Spiel's code for inspiration.  
> Or, it may be as simple as patterning some of it after the way in 
> which Orca supports keyboards shortcuts entered using the braille 
> display.  Some of the code used to support that might be used as part 
> of the support for touch screens.  Their code is not going to be 
> available ot study but, by far, the best accessibility support out there
for tablets is on the iPad.
> Hmmm,
> Alex M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Luke 
> Yelavich
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:34 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca and touch screen support
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:48:00AM EST, Clinton Waterbury wrote:
> > Hey all.
> > I've been hearing some rumblings about some sort of Ubuntu tablet 
> > they're tryig to come out with, and I was wondering if anyone had 
> > managed to get Orca working with touch screen based devices as of 
> > yet, or has that not even been experimented with.
> The underlying accessibility stack does not yet support working with 
> touch input, so Orca certainly doesn't support it yet. I dare say it 
> will be addressed in the future, but when is anybody's guess.
>
> Luke
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