Re: [orca-list] Programatically detecting if Orca is running

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Firefox looks for the gsetting I believe; Chrome looks to see if 
something (which may or may not be Orca) is using accessibility API 
(e.g. getting the state of an object).

--joanie

On 4/13/20 08:29, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Put another way, how does/will Chrome know that 
> --force-renderer-accessibility isn't necessary and that a screen reader 
> is running? I promise it won't be by grepping the process table for 
> "orca" or looking for config files (no offense to those who suggested 
> either, but my point is that there's probably an API in place for this 
> and I'm hoping for a pointer to it.)
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On 4/13/20 5:28 AM, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> > Le 13/04/2020 à 11:55, Volodymyr Dorozhinsky via orca-list a écrit :
> > > I guess this problem can be solved by checking some setting in 
> > > configuration files. Since when pressing Super+Alt+S to start orca 
> > > this setting is being recorded somewhere to be able to start orca 
> > > automatically on the next login. At least that's how this works in 
> > > Ubuntu-Mate.
> > It all depends on the scope intended by the OP. If he only targets one 
> > desktop in one distribution, that's fine. Else, more investigation is 
> > needed.
> >
> > For instance in Slint this is recorded in 
> > ~/.config/autostart/startorca.desktop so this would work:
> >
> > if [ -f ~/.config/autostart/startorca.desktop ] && grep -wq 
> > "Hidden=false"  ~/.config/autostart/startorca.desktop; then echo "user 
> > wants a screen reader on the desktop"; fi
> >
> > But there are many other ways to record this setting...
> >
> > Didier
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
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