[orca-list] Accessible Chess - Orca and XBoard

["Nalin.x.Linux" <nalin x linux gmail com>]

Dear orca developers,

      I am working on XBoard Gtk to make it accessible. The version that use TTS to announce the information is being tested by my visually impaired friends.  As you know, using TTS is not a good method, so I just created a solution by setting accessible description, so that screen reader can say it. Unfortunately this demands a minor change in orca screen reader code also(scripts/default.py). The patch is attached with this mail. Maybe we have to provide a check box option in orca to enable this. 

Quick way to compile accessible XBoard :

sudo apt-get install fairymax texinfo libgtk-3-dev build-essential
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/xboard.git
git checkout gtk3
autoreconf --install
./configure --prefix=/usr
make

sudo make install   

Please let me this amendment is feasible or not. Expecting an early reply Nalin. 

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