[Access-activists] Re: Somewhat Embarrassing

[Christian Hofstader]

Indeed, this is strange. A couple of days ago, rms told me that emacs 
under X doesn't use gtk or any other way to communicate with the GNOME 
based access technology. All I can do is get orca to say, 
"inaccessible," and then everything slows down to a crawl.

I'd be happy to help figure out what is wrong here as I would really 
like to be able to say that emacs and emacspeak both work with orca. 
Emacspeak works great in a text console though and trying to use the 
"normal" emacs with SpeakUp is doable  but hellish if you need to do 
something like run gdb from within emacs.

So, let's compare notes and either figure out what's wrong on my end or 
if it is more of a systemic issue, gather information and send it to the 
emacs maintainers. Rms also told me that getting emacs to use the 
accessiblity API and gtk would be a large and difficult project.

cdh
On 06/12/2010 03:06 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>      Bug: Orca refuses to shut up at present and let emacspeak do the
>      talking which is a nuisance.
>
> There is an anomaly here.
>
> cdh said Emacs running under X did not work at all with Orca; if I
> understand him right, Orca does not know about the text Emacs displays
> under X.
>
> But you say that Emacs does output to Orca.  And you said "under
> GNOME", which implies you too are using X.
>
> It seems that you and cdh observe different results.
> Can you two together figure out why?
>
>
>    

--
Happy Hacking,
cdh

Christian Hofstader
Director of Access Technology
FSF/Project GNU
http://www.gnu.org, http://www.fsf.org
GNU's Not Unix!