[BRLTTY] android

Stéphane Doyon s.doyon at videotron.ca
Mon Oct 14 15:35:36 EDT 2013


On Sat, 12 Oct 2013, Sebastian Humenda wrote:

> Hello Dave,
>
> Dave Mielke schrieb am 10.10.2013, 14:00 -0400:
>> [quoted lines by mattias on 2013/10/07 at 20:46 +0200]
>>
>>> are it possible to get brltty work with mail and web?
>>
>> Not at the mnoment. Screen content from those apps isn't given to Android's
>> accessibility framework. For example, even though those apps do speak, it isn't
>> TalkBack that's doing the speaking - it's ChromeVOX doing it directly from
>> JavaScript.
> I use K-9 Mail with TalkBack to read e-Mails. Doesn't this imply that the
> information is published via the accessibility framework?

K-9 Mail has some kind of special AccessibleWebView. I believe it comes 
down to extracting the text from the HTML and setting it in a text view.



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