Hey folks. I am working on accessibility for Unity 8. One thing that we need to solve is input event capture/processing for Orca. Whilst things work well enough with Qt via its X QPA plugin, the Mir QPA plugin does not do any form of keyboard snooping, therefore when using Orca with Qt apps under Mir, Orca's commands cannot be used. I am pretty sure the same applies for Wayland as well. I know in the case of Qt's Mir support, the developers do not want to add any form of keyboard snooping such as is present in Gtk/Clutter/Qt via its X QPA plugin.
I'm wondering whether anybody has done any work to spec out a cross desktop solution for this problem. My understanding is that any solution would not involve working on Wayland/Mir directly, since the compositor/shell is the arbitor of all things input. Instead any solution would be implemented in the compositor/shell, so mutter, KWin, and the unity 8 shell. Without having tried to spec something out myself, I don't think it would be that complex, probably something over DBus that allows an assistive technology such as Orca to register its interest to process input events with the shell, at which point it is notified again via DBus when an input event needs processing, and signals the shell appropriately. I guess this si something that would need amending an atspi spec somewhere, or would this be more along the lines of XDG? Thoughts, suggestions, and corrections welcome. Luke _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
