[BRLTTY] Xbrlapi

Willie Walker William.Walker at Sun.COM
Tue Dec 12 09:43:43 EST 2006


> > But I'd also like to ask this: Would it be so bad to implement PASSCHAR 
> > keypresses into the braille component of Orca ? Because of orca doing 
> > focus tracking, it would be easy to post keypresses to the right 
> > application, and it would be easier for the user (no need to start one 
> > program, and then another).
> > Just think about an end-user point of view...
> 
> If orca, lsr, gnopernicus, etc. screen readers are ready to implement
> this, why not of course.  But as I said, synthesizing key presses is not
> that trivial, so that's why I implemented it for everybody in a generic
> program.

Sending keypresses to AT-SPI enabled applications from Orca is indeed
trivial (we have support for this).  Getting them to other applications
is not so easy, though.

Will




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