Re: [orca-list] Geany, SciTE and other Scintilla based applications

[Mike Ray <mike raspberryvi org>]

I wouldn't refer to trying to pressure Neil Hodgson into adding
accessibility to Scintilla as 'peer pressure'.  He wrote it, he
unfortunately has every right to refuse to spend time adding accessibility.

Happily as it's open source there's no reason why somebody else should
not do the necessary work.


I get as frustrated as anybody with inaccessible apps but we don't have
a right to bulldozer authors into doing stuff they don't want to do.



On 15/07/2014 15:01, John Heim wrote:
> Sounds like time for some peer pressure.  I'll have a go at it soon as
> I have some time. That probably won't be until at least next week.
>
>
>
> On 07/15/14 01:49, Mike Ray wrote:
> > He just said no.
> >
> > And then made some comments about Microsoft changing their accessibility
> > interface which made introduction of a11y in the Windows version
> > difficult.
> >
> > And something about any changes needing to be backwards-compatible to
> > earlier gtk versions.
> >
> > However he did express a willingness to incorporate any a11y changes a
> > competent developer might add.
> >
> > I think everything except the actual edit control, being standard gtk
> > widgets basically work.  Although Scintilla code-completion and
> > call-tips are likely to be more of a problem, as they are on Windows.
> >
> > I will have a look at atk and how to interface to at-spi but I know very
> > little about gtk or atk at the moment.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On 15/07/2014 07:23, Tony Baechler wrote:
> > > Did he give a reason why?  I'm not a programmer, but could a patch be
> > > written easily or would that require a lot of extra code?  I'm
> > > thinking that
> > > Debian for example often ships source patches to fix bugs and add
> > > features.
> > >   Obviously, if it's a lot of work, it's not worth it, but if the major
> > > distros could ship a patched version with accessibility, that could
> > > be a
> > > possible solution.
> > >
> > > On 2014-07-14 04:21 PM, Mike Ray wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > >
> > > > Today I asked Neil Hodgson, the author of the Scintilla control
> > > > which is
> > > > used by Geany, SciTE and a number of other gtk tools, if he would
> > > > consider adding accessibility code to the gtk version of Scintilla.
> > > >
> > > > He said no.
> > > >
> > > > Mike


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Michael A. Ray
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