I think we as blind Linux users could come up with something that would be in the experimental stages at this point, but if we had enough devs to work on it we could get it out pretty quick.
I think it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with this Ubuntu tablet I first talked about, but I guess right now it looks like a wait and see if/when it comes out.
On Jan 15, 2014 3:03 AM, "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> That's my thoughts exactly. From a programming point of view Orca and
> at-spi work quite a bit differently from the way NVDA interacts with
> Windows via the Windows API, U.I. Automation, etc. So the trick for
> an Orca developer would be to figure how to find the Linux equivalents
> to the way NVDA handles touchscreen access on Windows and imitate it.
> The same could be said for something like Talkback and Android. We are
> talking major differences in API and implementation that don't
> necessarily cross over to Orca and Gnome.
>
>
>
> On 1/14/14, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> > 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.
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