[Kde-accessibility] talk as type and konqueror events

[Bill Haneman]

Paul Giannaros wrote:

> Accomplishing this on a global level around KDE (whenever you type 
> text into fields in any KDE application) strikes me as a difficult 
> thing to do.

Yes, this will probably have to wait until at-spi support for Qt is 
integrated into KDE.  When that happens, there will be a uniform 
interface for text-change events globally available, so a client could 
be written to use ktts.  Or an already-existing screen reader like 
gnopernicus or orca could be used as-is, or patched to use ktts instead 
of gnome-speech.

If what you want is 'key echo' only, then it's a bit easier, you could 
use the XEVIE extension which is provided with the latest XOrg xserver 
11.6.8.1.  But this only tells what keys were pressed, it doesn't tell 
you what characters resulted, as that is a function of the application 
and input method in use.

regards

Bill

> If you just want an application where you can type text into and have 
> this happen then yes, this is very easy. All that would be required is 
> hooking up a text-changed signal on a text box to a slot which speaks 
> the necessary text. If that's what you'd like I could probably mock 
> something up quickly.
>
>
> On 6/3/05, *Jürgen Zdero* <juergen at zdero.de <mailto:juergen at zdero.de>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     reading the actual discussion on keyboard-programming, i think
>     here are some
>     very competent people to answer a my question.
>     I would like to use ktts to talk as i type on the keyboard.
>     Similar as emacsspeak do.
>     In single- character-, word- or sentence-mode to improve my typing
>     skills.
>     Is this feasible easy ?
>
>     Anybody knows why it seems that konqueror do not fire events ?
>     There is no eventsrc for konqueror which would be useful for
>     ktts-notification
>     settings.
>
>     regs juergen
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