On 02/17/11 09:43, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Hey, > > I've spent the last night poring through gail bugs and code, and came > to the conclusion that we need to face the tough reality that the > state of a11y in GTK+ is sadly declining. There were years old patches > in bugzilla which fix pretty obvious bugs; on top of that, I've fixed > at least one bug that would lead to instant segfault in the file > chooser when a11y is turned on. > > I think we need to start over on the gail implementations, essentially. > > Now, we obviously can't do that by throwing away all we have now and > start from a blank slate. The only way this can work, imo, is to move > implementations from gail to gtk 1-by-1 and fixing them up in the > process. I wonder if we can come up with some plan for how to organize > that practically.
If it can be tested easily (ie. without having to put my entire desktop at the mercy of a11y), and the porting process documented fairly well, I imagine we can organize a hacking weekend on IRC to port widgets one by one. If ten people attend, should make great progress... behdad > The current state of affairs cannot be useful for anybody. While I was > digging at this with accerciser last night, it would let me poke > things for a bit, but as soon as I look back at the code, accerciser > would lock up hard, sometimes freezing random other applications in > the process... > > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-l...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
