On 08/31/2015 02:40 AM, Alejandro Piñeiro wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29/08/15 23:31, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on the AT-SPI2 driver of brltty, and there is something we
>> are doing very oddly: finding out which widget is currently active.  At
>> the moment what we do is starting from the AT-SPI root, and recursively
>> look at children until we find one which is focused and has an active
>> parent. 
> 
> As far as I know something like that is what Orca does (Joanmarie can
> confirm).

I think the bug you subsequently pointed to confirms it:

> There is an open bug about that:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651368

As I stated in comment 7 of that bug:

  Well, that strikes me as being the tree diving that Orca
  already does -- when Orca is forced to do it.

Orca tries to avoid doing it by keeping track of the active widget.

--joanie
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