Re: iaccessible2 and linux (was Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility)

2011-06-12 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 6/12/2011 2:40 AM, Isaac Porat wrote: Hi My comments were not a criticism of at-spi but rather the need were possible to unify accessibilities standard across platforms for the simple reason that if software vendors have to worry about one accessibility stack it is better than two or three

Re: iaccessible2 and linux (was Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility)

2011-06-11 Thread Isaac Porat
Hi My comments were not a criticism of at-spi but rather the need were possible to unify accessibilities standard across platforms for the simple reason that if software vendors have to worry about one accessibility stack it is better than two or three, as Linux as very small user based it is

Re: iaccessible2 and linux (was Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility)

2011-06-07 Thread PiƱeiro
On 06/07/2011 03:36 AM, Isaac Porat wrote: Hi I was asking the same question a couple of years ago. My understanding after looking a bit into the issue is that IBM consulted at the time key people in accessibility in Linux (there still some minutes of these meetings) to make both interfaces

Re: iaccessible2 and linux (was Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility)

2011-06-06 Thread Isaac Porat
Hi I was asking the same question a couple of years ago. My understanding after looking a bit into the issue is that IBM consulted at the time key people in accessibility in Linux (there still some minutes of these meetings) to make both interfaces as close as possible which as indicated it

iaccessible2 and linux (was Re: Lubuntu and Accessibility)

2011-06-06 Thread frederik.gladhorn
I guess IBM needed a neutral place to dump the interface definitions. In theory it would be possible to implement iaccessible2 on linux, but the inter process communication of it would have to be replaced and all that is hosted as interface files on the linux foundation website can only be used w