[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: windows apps and liblouisxml

  • From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:40:38 +0200

James Teh <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 25/05/2010 7:44 PM, Christian Egli wrote:
>>> One issue with Dots is that i think it uses GTK, which is not
>>> accessible to screen readers in Windows.
>> Oh, I didn't realize that. That's bad news. I thought gtk had some
>> accessibility support (atk).
> It does. However, that's only useful in Linux, which is GTK's primary
> target. On Windows, ATK is not useable and GTK doesn't utilise the
> native Windows accessibility APIs.

That means GTK is dead on arrival as far as cross-platform accessibility
goes. But then again so are probably .NET based solutions. Is there such
a thing as an accessible, cross-platform GUI framework?

I see that you're using wx widgets for NVDA. Does that fit the bill?

Thanks
Christian
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