In some ways, once you get outside text-based terminal apps, you're in a
whole other environment in the X11 world. I'm not nearly as familiar
with how accessibility is done there but I'm pretty sure voiceover will
not help you there. From the XWindow Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Computer_accessibility_related_issues
"However there is no accessibility standard or accessibility guidelines
for X11. Within the X11 standards process there is no working group on
accessibility, however, accessibility needs are being addressed by
software projects to provide these features on top of X.
The Orca project adds accessibility support to the X Window System,
including implementing an API (AT-SPI). This is coupled with Gnome's ATK
to allow for accessibility features to be implemented in X programs
using the Gnome/GTK APIs. KDE provides a different set of accessibility
software, including a text-to-speech converter and a screen magnifier.
The other major desktops (LXDE, Xfce and Enlightenment) attempt to be
compatible with ATK."
So it sounds like individual apps implement accessibility rather than
having it baked into the infrastructure or they rely on another layer on
top of X11 and not all apps use this layer. In other words, layers of
goo that seems unlikely for the average person to get all working correctly.
CB
On 11/26/14, 4:46 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
hello everyone,
are there any interface experts on here that can suggest how to make macport
compiled programs accessible with voiceover? The problem I see is that almost
all of them use X11 as their presentation platform. THere are a few that also
have the AQUA interfaces that can be made, but the utilities I want do not have
this as a feature.
suggestions? comments?
-eric
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