[Kde-accessibility] ANNOUNCE: at-spi2-atk 2.8.1 released
Bob Stia
rnr at pasco.org
Thu May 16 20:54:56 UTC 2013
On Monday 13 May 2013 17:09:16 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Bob,
>
> The Qt app you are referring to is KMag? at any rate, any screen reader
> (Orca, some kde based equivalent) uses at-spi2-atk to get accessible names
> and descriptions for gtk based applications. Orca (which uses gtk) also
> uses that to get accessible names and descriptions from Qt based
> applications if they are exposed by QT_ACCESSIBILITY being set in your
> environment. at-spi2-atk is not an application itself, but a library that
> other applications use, so installing it, or upgrading it to the latest
> released version on your system isn't likely to change how KMag or
> festival/espeak, etc. work. It may make orca work better for your case if
> you are using orca, but it shouldn't affect KMag or festival or espeak
> since they don't use that library. I hope that helps clarify things a bit.
>
> BR,
>
Thanks for the reply Jeremy. Sorry for the delay in replying, your explanation
has clarified my confusion. It's really too bad that we can't make all these
things work co-hesively. Maybe some day, but that doesn't help people like me
today.
Bob Stia
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