Re: [orca-list] What is Enable assistive technologies checkbox for?

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual hypra fr>]

From my understanding, it sets the desktop environment to send the 
events properly to the assistive bus technology. It establishes, then, a 
potential communication between Orca and the desktop and apps. It does 
not mean that the environment will be accessible, as it depends on the 
labels and keyboard focus, etc, but at least the way is free and the 
communication established. Hence the fact in Debian, we requested all 
the desktops to enable it, to ensure they may be accessible if they have 
all is needed in their interface (widgets, labels, etc)

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Le 18/05/2020 à 03:40, Rastislav Kiss via orca-list a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
> here I am, with another mistery.
> I thought, that just like on Windows, all that's needed to do in order
> to use computer with screenreader is to turn it on.
> Therefore I was quite surprised, when I found Assistive technologies
> settings, and a checkbox "Enable accessibility technologies" in
> unchecked state.
> Does someone know, what is this checkbox for?
> I don't need any assistive technologies except screenreader, so I would
> like my system to stay as normal as possible, thus I didn't try to
> check this option before asking.
> On the other hand, I noticed that some frameworks with accessibility
> bridges, namely Java and Mono are unaccessible, so I wonder, are there
> global variables, which would make these things work?
> Or may be it is just coincidence, but then I'd be curious, what is the
> checkbox for.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards
>
> Rastislav
>
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