Re: [orca-list] chromium/chrome support?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
I have 8 gb of ram here, so I'd be glad to try building chromium. I know
no c++ code, unfortunately, so the most I could do would be to test new
code, but I'd be happy to do that much.


On 05/17/2014 03:21 AM, Jason White wrote:
> kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> > I'm sure this question has been asked before, and if so I apologize for cluttering up the list, but  would 
> > it be 
> > possible/feasable to add orca support to chromium? 
>
> It has been partly implemented but, when I last looked, required a lot more
> work to complete the code.
>
> I also discovered quite quickly that in order to help with this, you really
> should have a machine with the recommended 8GB of RAM to complete the
> compilation process. My hardware has only 4GB, so the build process is
> extremely slow and uses a lot of swap space. It also takes the temperatures
> far too high - possibly a fan issue that I haven't tracked down.
>
> If you know C++ and have a modern machine with the required resources, I'm
> sure the Chromium project would welcome contributions. Essentially, it's a
> multi-process browser. All of the accessibility-related information is
> transferred between the browser process and the rendering processes, and
> support for individual operating systems is provided in the browser process.
>
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