um yeah. that starts to sound way too complicated. Also, ORCA (the screen reader I use in Linux) doesn't have a port to macports. it also has a lot of dependencies that aren't there either. building stuff that strictly uses a console (or terminal) window is easy and those programs just work. its anything that requires X which is being the pain.
-eric On Nov 26, 2014, at 9:13 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: > 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 >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
