Re: [orca-list] Reading QT apps with Orca

[Chrys <chrys linux-a11y org>]

Howdy,

No i m not in debian a11y team. But i know some bits since my current effort making KDE plasma accessible. I 
do my work for F123 and linux-a11y group.
I m the creator of Simple Orca Plugin System, OCRdesktop, fenrir and a couple of others.
I never used tails so i cannot help for your specific issue. Do you know what QT version is used for this 
tool?
Or do you know the name of the tool? Then i would take a look at its dependency.

Cheers chrys

> Am 15.02.2019 um 14:17 schrieb Cory Samaha <csamaha86 gmail com>:
>
> Hi Chrys,
> I assume you are on the Debian accessibility team?  My issue here is that I am running Tails and am trying 
> to create a persistent storage volume with the included tool, but none of the controls appear to read.  And 
> in order to make changes to my .profile settings stick permanently I need persistent storage.  So, it’s 
> kind of a chicken and egg situation.  Have you dealt with Tails before?  If so, is this in fact a QT based 
> app?  I did check, and qt-at-spi does seem to be installed by default, but there are just certain apps 
> where Orca isn’t reading.  Maybe it’s easy to blame it on QT, but I actually am not exactly sure what the 
> problem is.  Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Cory
>
> > On Feb 15, 2019, at 5:16 AM, chrys linux-a11y org wrote:
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > > I was just wondering if  any progress has been made with QT apps, or is this still necessary in order to 
> > > get them to read?
> >
> > in fact there has been some progress. For QT5 qt-at-spi is not needed. QT5 works just out of the box. you 
> > just have to set an environment variable to tell QT5 to expose the accessibility information.
> >
> > For QT4 the qt-at-spi bridge is still needed.
> >
> > here the needed environment variables for your bashrc or something (QT4 and QT5)
> > # code start
> > QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
> > QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1
> > export QT_ACCESSIBILITY QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON
> > # code end
> >
> > i hope this helps.
> >
> > cheers chrys
> >
> > Zitat von Cory Samaha via orca-list <orca-list gnome org>:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I was listening to a tutorial series a while back and in order for Orca to read QT programs it was 
> > > necessary to install a package called qt-at-spi.  Then you had to modify one of the default profile files 
> > > and set the flag in order to get it to work.  I was just wondering if any progress has been made with QT 
> > > apps, or is this still necessary in order to get them to read?  Thanks, and apologies again for the 
> > > elementary questions.
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