Mono UIA packages around the corner

[Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>]

Hi.

Thanks to the work of Ray Wang from Novell, Debian packages for the Mono
UIA work (http://www.mono-project.com/Accessibility) are around the corner.

If you want to do some early testing, you can add the following
line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/raywang/uia2atk/ubuntu karmic main

Then apt-get update and:
apt-get install libmono-uiaatkbridge1.0 libmono-uiautomationwinforms1.0-cil

(Please note that these packages have been built for Ubuntu, but they
apparently work on Debian as well.)

You should now be able to run .NET WinForms applications and have them
accessible via Orca.  As usual, this is pretty new and therefore will
have all sorts of bugs, but it is definitely a good start.  For
instance, I just used IronPython to dynamically create a very small
WinForms app, and was able to read the Controls (RichtTextBox and a
Menu) as expected.

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