[Access-activists] Re: Somewhat Embarrassing

[T.V. Raman]

Emacspeak works well under gnome --- and even if you're running
orca for everything else, the emacspeak experience is always
going to be way better.
Bug: Orca refuses to shut up at present and let emacspeak do the
talking which is a nuisance.

Eventually, we need to allow self-voicing apps  do their own
talking when orca is running.
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On 6/11/10, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     GNU Emacs is probably the most well known program from the Free
>>     Software Foundation. For a blind user, it works pretty well with
>>     Speakup in a text console but the one that runs off of the GNOME
>>     desktop is entirely inaccessible... orca cannot see or speak data
>>     in this window.
>>
>> What about Emacsspeak?  Can you make it work that way?
>>
>>     If we handout CDs at NFB, someone might notice that our flagship
>>     program is only accessible in a text console and they may choose
>>     to "condemn and deplore" us for a silly reason.
>>
>>     So, what do we do?
>>
>> Let's see if we can make this work soon.
>>
>> I have cc'd the Emacs maintainers, but since this is sensitive,
>> I did not send this message to the public Emacs mailing list.
>
> I am not aware of the context of this discussion.  If I understand the
> original poster's intent, it is to use Orca, instead of T.V. Raman's
> Emacspeak system, to interact with Emacs.  Correct?
>
> It would be an extremely difficult job to get Emacs to switch to GTK
> rendering.  However, from my understanding Orca uses an API, called
> AT-SPI, so Emacs or Emacspeak might be able to "talk to" it directly via
> this interface.  However, the documentation for AT-SPI documentation
> seems to be poor to non-existent.
>
> Maybe T.V. Raman can give us his advice.
>