[macvoiceover] Re: X11?
- From: "Ginny " <ginnyo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:19:09 -0500
I would just like to say that I am in awe of this explanation. It soared
right over my head. :)
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[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:14 AM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: X11?
If X11 or applications developed for it support the gnome
accessibility, a similar procedure to that done to bring open office
to the Macintosh could do the trick. If I remember correctly, Open
Office uses a translation box to go from gnome to Mac.
Years ago, when we were all working to make a compatible API, the
different players dropped out of the program at different times.
Microsoft spun off and took what we had as a spec and turned it into
UIA (sort of). Apple was next to pull out and we have their API which
is closer to the final edition of the spec and gnome impliments all of
it. Because gnome has a richer accessibility API, it may do things
that may not work on Macintosh without some crufty hacking but, having
not looked at the Mac specific portions of Open Office, I can't really
tell how bad it would be. I know tables are one of the harder objects
to support in an API and the Open Office word processor does very
poorly with them so this may be a constraint of building a
compatibility box to go from gnome to Mac.
This is, of course, all moot if the X11 applications do not support
the gnome API.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:02 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
> X11 is the graphical interface a lot of unix-type operating systems
> use for making applications graphical.
> As far as I know, none of the previously implemented solutions (such
> as the ones for kde and gnome) will work on osx, so we're kind of
> stuck there.
> X11 (even on osx) won't use the cocoa or carbon calls that allows vo
> to read the screen for us, and therefore, they will not be
> accessible to us.
> Until something gets ported from linux/bsd, we're left out of the
> loop on this one.
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:47 PM, Keith Reedy wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Has any one tried reading programs maid MAC compatible with x11?
>>
>> This is way over my head.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Keith Reedy
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