On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Jeff Earickson <jaear...@colby.edu> wrote:

> John,
> 
> I gave it major effort tonight.  In the first round, I reran 
> gtk-osx-build-setup.sh, reran jhbuild (failed), selected "wipe directory and 
> clean", retried (failed again).
> 
> In round 2, I removed everything related to gnucash/jhbuild from my home 
> directory (.jhbuild* files, gtk*, Source, .local, gnucash-stable, 
> .subversion) and started from scratch: download gtk-osx-build-setup.sh, 
> download new .jhbuildrc-custom, follow the instructions on the wiki from the 
> beginning.  Same error in Webkit, see attached.  I wondered what "pull the 
> latest gnucash-on-mac" meant; I thought starting from scratch would do that 
> anyway.
> 
> While waiting for stuff to compile, I spent time reading thru the developer 
> wiki pages.  I groaned when I saw the blurb at the bottom of the page 
> "Gtk-OSX does not yet support Universal Access."  That is the one thing I was 
> hoping (someday) to accomplish, so my visually impaired wife could use 
> gnucash.  At least I can export accounts to csv, pull them into Excel and 
> have that read text to her -- something Quicken can't do.

In that case I recommend setting up a Linux box or a Linux VM for her so that 
she can use the native Gtk/Atk screen reader Orca — though GnuCash doesn’t 
directly implement any atk functions, it might still work well enough for her 
to use.

Regards,
John Ralls


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