Re: [orca-list] Script to interact with Orca
- From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>
- To: Corentin BACQUÉ-CAZENAVE <corentin progaccess net>, "orca-list gnome org" <orca-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] Script to interact with Orca
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:07:11 +0200
Thinking about this more: What we really need is a notification API in ATK and AT-SPI2. Then Orca could start listening for special notifications and display them in speech and/or braille, just like it does for state changes, text changes, etc. This would also make it possible for Orca to offer -- and respect -- user settings so that they are in charge of their user experience. For instance, a user might/might not wish to hear a message from an app which is not focused. They might wish to completely opt out of messages from apps which are too "chatty." Etc.
So I've filed
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/issues/199 which I've "blocked" until we have the API we need. That issue has links to the ATK and AT-SPI2 issues I've also just filed. I will be happy to implement support in Orca once that API exists. In the meantime, I hope one of the solutions below works for you.
--joanie
On Thu, 2021-04-08 at 10:45 +0200, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
Orca should announce anything with the accessible role of notification in response to a state-showing event. This could be accomplished via using a platform notification library or by creating the accessible object in your app and firing the accessibility event. Note that Orca doesn't (in theory) care if the thing is actually displayed on screen.
If your project is web based, ARIA live regions should work.
Orca doesn't have an API through which apps can make it do stuff. Sorry! But you could send things to speech-dispatcher.
HTH.
--joanie
On Wed, 2021-04-07 at 23:37 +0200, Corentin BACQUÉ-CAZENAVE via orca-list wrote:
Hi,
I'm contributor of a conferencing project, currently we are working to a TTS system for program notifications.
We found a way to do this on Windows (with Tolk library) and on MacOS (with Apple scripts), but we found nothing to interact with Orca.
There is any way to send a message to Orca and request him to say it?
Thanks in advance.
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