Re: [orca-list] improve irssi support

[Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau <ecole tyna gmail com>]

Hi,
speakup is a pure console screen reader, so no it can't really use 
at-spi2, unless it also handles tty in some ways I'm not aware of
Thanks

Joanmarie Diggs a écrit :
> Hi Tyna.
>
> On 06/23/2017 10:58 AM, Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > As far as I know, all irssi is using is terminfo, I don't know why
> > speakup works so well with it and yet orca does not, but I'd like it if
> > support could be improved.
> Is speakup using AT-SPI2 for this presentation?
>
> The reason I ask is that the information we get via AT-SPI2 is mostly
> accessible-text change events -- and not events that are clear. Often,
> when new text comes in, the event is not for just the newly-inserted
> text; there's a text deletion event removing a bunch of text followed by
> an insertion of a bunch of text, and Orca has to play "Guess what
> changed and why." Furthermore, Orca doesn't know you're in irssi, or
> vim, or less, or.... So the guessing game is pretty challenging. On top
> of all of that, there are a few bugs in VTE's accessible-text
> implementation (e.g. when you ask for the line, do you get the right
> line and offsets?). That also has to be taken into account in the
> guessing game.
>
> --joanie