Re: [orca-list] flatpak apps accessibility with Orca

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

I think QT accessibility is enabled via environment variable, rather
than by whatever method GTK uses. If that is the case, that environment
variable won't be injected into the flatpak sandbox, since I'm pretty
sure it clears the environment before launching. I may be wrong, as I
haven't thoroughly tested.


I do know, though, that other QT apps I've run via flatpak aren't
accessible when they are in a non-sandboxed environment. GTK/GNOME apps
work fine via flatpak for the most part. It may also be a dbus issue,
since dbus access is sandboxed and has to be permitted. I patched
Thunderbird's flatpak to grant it dbus access. But I think the fact that
QT apps also require an environment variable is key.


I think you can inject that via flatpak-override to test. Not sure what
a good ecosystem-wide solution would be, other than QT enabling access
without the need for an environment var.


On 06/20/2018 10:56 AM, Pavel Vlček via orca-list wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> today, I installed Linphone 4.1 using flatpak. Linphone is written
> using QT 5 and is accessible under Win and Mac. But, flatpack uses
> some virtualization window or somethink, what makes Linphone
> absolutelly inaccessible, Orca says Linphone and that is all. Flat
> review is silent etc. So, can be flatpak / docker / container app
> accessible or not? If so, how to enable accessibility of these apps?
> At this time, I compile Linphone 4.1 from source to test, if a11y
> problem is in QT or in Flatpak, but if it speaks under Win / Mac, I
> think it will speaks under Linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pavel
>
>
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