Hi all. > Well, I'm not Joanie, but I can start the answer and then she can > confirm/complete/correct me.
I'll go with "confirm." :-) Thanks so much for writing this up, Alejandro! --joanie On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 12:02 +0200, Piñeiro wrote: > From: Jeremy Whiting <jpwhit...@kde.org> > > > Adding gnome-accessibility and accessibility to the lists as they are the > > ones with the answers in this regard I believe. > > > > Joanie, we are discussing magnification, and I thought you'd likely know the > > answer about the api orca/gnome mag uses that Gunnar mentioned here. > > Well, I'm not Joanie, but I can start the answer and then she can > confirm/complete/correct me. > > >> > individual user applications, and a special magnification API is used for > >> > the communication between a screen reader and the magnifier (so that the > >> > screen magnifier does itself not need an AT-SPI implementation. > >> > >> do you know if the magnification API is going to be kept with / ported to > >> AT- > >> SPI2? if so, then it would be possible to make use of that API with the > >> kwin > > AFAIK the magnification API is not a AT-SPI(2) issue. Magnification > tools has some API defined, and Orca uses to control it (although any > other app could try to use it). > > Current status: > > * gnome-mag is the current a11y friendly magnification solution in > the GNOME Desktop. > * It defines an API. > * Orca has a "Magnifier" tab to use it. > > Problems: > > * Right now this API uses CORBA. And CORBA is deprecated (and hated) > * With GNOME-Shell we can't use gnome-mag > > Work in process: > > * gnome-mag API migration to DBUS is in progress [3] > * It is still a high risk issue, but this last weeks some people > volunteered to help. > * Joseph Scheuhammer [1] implemented the magnifier feature in > gnome-shell. Really cool, and with a really good performance. > * It has a DBUS interface to use it, not complete [2] > * The idea is that the migrated gnome-mag API and the gnome-shell > magnification tool API be the same, so Orca could use both without > problems. > > >> magnification desktop effect (when used as an a11y aid) and when AT-SPI2 > >> becomes available, nothing in kwin's code would need to change. but that > >> relies on the magnification API remaining stable ... (which i hope it > >> would, > >> for the sake of other magnifiers out there) > > As I have just said, AFAIK, the magnifier tools API wouldn't be > present in AT-SPI2 directly. > > But, other people involved (Mike Gorse, Joanie) can confirm/complete > all this. > > BR > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification > [2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification#D-Bus > [3] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GNOME3#gnome-mag_.28port_to_D-Bus.29 > > === > API (apinhe...@igalia.com) > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
