Re: [orca-list] accessibility of snapt packages?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

Snap packages are, I believe, completely inaccessible to orca. This 
should, in theory be fixable bby hooking up snapd to at-spi, atk, etc, 
which so far doesn't seem to be done. Snap packages get access to the 
resources they need except accessibility services, I think. I'm not 
absolutely positive about this, but I download a snap version of 
firefox, and it was a blank window called "firefox", so orca doesn't 
seem to be able to see it, and firefox is very much accessible. I wonder 
if the ubuntu guys would fix this, or if joanie could work on it when 
she has time? There's no hurry, but the snap store is, well, a sort of 
app store for linux, with the advantage of running on just about every 
linux distro. The one bad thing about them is that the majority of 
software in the so called snap store is proprietary, but for people who 
absolutely have to have these programs it's an option, as long as those 
apps are accessible. I like the idea of snaps honestly, it bridges the 
gap for people who refuse to use open source apps for things, or where 
there are no open source apps for things, like skype and telegram, and 
spotify. Plus, gnome software handles them just as wel as they handle 
any other app.With this added to fwupdmgr and fwupdate, we can do things 
other platforms cannot out of the box. If they can, they require vender 
specific apps to do so and I'll shut up now.


Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 03/15/2018 02:13 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark

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