Re: squeeze, at-spi2 and webkit
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:44:19PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> writes:
>
> > I would agree as long as this package doesn't make at-spi2 the default.
>
> Current "plans" are to release squeeze with at-spi(bonobo) as default.
> at-spi2 has to demonstrate stability and performance, otherweise we risk
> completely breaking the accessbility of GNOME in our upcoming stable release.
>
> > The decision to use the webkit backend for yelp has already made Debian
> > less accessible than upstream,
>
> I was kind of foreseeing the problem with WebKit adoption when it
> started. However, back then people did not realize/believe that
> accessibility would be an issue hard to deal with, and the percepted
> need to get rid of xulrunner felt like a unbreakable barrier to me.
> So I kind of had to go with "the flow" and hope for the best.
> I am not happy to see my intuition was right.
I don't know what Orca does, but as I am currently developing a little
something that uses a11y APIs to access text within applications, I
can tell you epiphany and yelp are as accessible as iceweasel from my
point of view (using my tool and accerciser). Some occasional things
don't work properly, such as getOffsetAtPoint(), but AFAICT, most of
what is needed to be displayed on a screen reader is gettable through
the at-spi APIs. All that is with packages from current unstable.
Cheers,
Mike
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