Orca is designed to work with applications that support the AT-SPI (Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface). You're right that most accessibility software is designed to work with applications (as far as I know), but what I was wondering about are things like the programs menu and window control access (close, minimize, maximize, etc). FVWM controls how windows are opened, closed, minimized, and maximized right? Also, would the programs menu (i.e. on the taskbar) be considered a separate application, or is that part of FVWM? I ask because I guess I don't fully understand which things are part of the window manager, and which are part of the higher level desktop environment. Does FVWM only handle displaying the windows?
I'm just thinking about the idea of building an accessible Linux distro. I can't seem to find one that's set up to be accessible right out of the box. You have to install all of the software yourself and get it configured. I want to make sure that I build the distro from the ground up to be accessible, including low level menu and window access. If I'm looking in the wrong place, just let me know and I'll look towards the desktop environment level. Also, if anyone knows of an accessible Linux distro I'd love to hear about it, but I'm not sure there is one yet. Thanks. On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:33:55PM -0400, Jeremy Wright wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to FVWM and I was wondering what has been done or could be >> done to make it accessible to people with disabilities. I'm looking >> for ways to hook into the window manager for accesibility programs >> like Orca. > > How does Orca currently work? From what I can tell, it seems to work on an > application-by-application basis. Remember that FVWM is just a window > manager, it's not an integration environment like a Desktop Environment. > > Can you tell us what Orca does, how you think it might/should/need to hook > into FVWM? That way it might be more applicable to suggest something. It > could be the case, for instance, that you want to start Orca once a specific > window gains focus? That would be possible... > > -- Thomas Adam > > > "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." > -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. >
