On 10/03/12 13:03, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nolan Darilek<no...@thewordnerd.info> wrote:
So how do we change this?
Assistive technology relies on automation UIs.
Automated testing can use automation UIs.
End-user scripting can use automation UIs.
If *nix environments used automation UIs to drive testability and
scriptability, there'd be a lot less breakage for assistive
technology.
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funnily enough they do use the LDTP stuff for testing some bits of
Ubuntu http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/FAQ in particular ubiquity the
installer. This caused a problem last cycle because they dynamically
changed all the accessibility strings for the convenience of the test
script and left a load of junk in for the screen reader to read out.
After we pointed out how rude it was to break things like this a fix was
quickly provided that allowed both the ldtp script to work and the
screen reader to read the correct strings. The point being, it is used
in places, and I would like to encourage more uses of accessibility
technology like this. I would like to encourage the use of Orca scripts
as part of the design process, alongside the visual storyboard - it is
massively easier to write a script than it is to draw a user interface.
Alan.
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