Re: [orca-list] spotify accessibility

[Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud hypra fr>]

Le 15/03/2018 à 08:13, kendell clark a écrit :
> I've just switched from using ubuntu's built in software tools to gnome 
> software and I like gnome software better. I've also been experimenting 
> with snapd packages, which are apparently mounted archives 
> containerized, or isolated, from other apps and your hardware. Can orca 
> get at these? So far I've installed spotify, mostly because it sounded 
> interesting, and orca can't see it. It uses gtk aned I believe webkit, 
> but not positive about that, but to orca it's a blank window called 
> "spotify". Can orca or atk get at these to read them? If not, will this 
> ever be possible? I don't much care for spotify myself, but I know 
> others do and it would be nice to finally be able to use spotify's 
> native app instead of having to configure other music clients to use 
> libspotify, which isn't even in ubuntu's repositories I don't think. If 
> this isn't possible, is anyone interested in helping to add this if 
> joanie doesn't have time? I'm a budding python programmer, although I 
> haven't coded anything yet, I'm still in the learning phase, so I'm not 
> the guy to start something like this.

I don't know for snap packages but in my recent test spotify is not 
accessible with Orca.

To use Spotify, you could imagine to use the web interface.

What GTK applications can be connected to spotify currently ?

Best regards,
Alex.