Re: [orca-list] Brltty and Orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Luca.

I'm not sure I understand your question. But if what you are asking is
"why does Orca speak the same thing brltty is displaying?" and this only
occurs if Orca is running, then the answer is: Orca tells brltty what to
display via brlapi. If instead you are saying "brltty presents foo even
if Orca is not running, where are brltty and Orca each independently
getting the foo stuff?" Well, then that depends on what the foo stuff is. :)

--joanie

On 06/29/2015 01:15 PM, Luca Saiu wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to develop an accessible application using ATK but no GTK or
> other toolkit [1] ; Alejandro Piñeiro has been very helpful, and I hope
> to be converging to the solution.
>
> Anyway the conversation, and some feedback by others, made me understand
> that Brltty is not an AT-SPI client, which was surprising to me.  Now
> that I've a little more knowledge about the accessibility subsystem I'll
> watch again Samuel Thibault's videos, which are often enlightening,
> paying attention to this detail.
>
> In any case, when developing my application and looking at others, I
> notice that brltty seems to renders the same "text" vocalized by Orca --
> and when an application window is vocalized as "inaccessible" by orca,
> so it is recognized by brltty as well.  They seem to be tightly coupled
> somehow.
>
> My question is definitely naïve.  Would you have any pointers about the
> dependency relation between those two pieces of software?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> [1] http://osdir.com/ml/debian-accessibility/2015-06/msg00033.html