Hello Ben Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au> wrote on Do, Mär 10, 2011 at 12:04:50 +1100: >On 9/03/11 1:00 AM, Sebastian Humenda wrote: >>I would like to make a suggestion for the graphical Vim. When using >>Orca, a screenreader for the graphical desktop, I can't use GVim. >>Since the menu's and button's are written in GTK+, there are perfectly >>usable, but not the main text body. This is quite logical: GTK+ has >>built-in the ATK library to report information about the program >>directly to AT-SPI -> Orca. As my understanding is, it would be only >>necessary, that GVim reports the kind and the content of the text body >>(the actual opened file) to AT-SPI, using the AT-SPI library. There >>has just to be someone who has some experience with GTK and wants to >>help out. >> >>There are several blind and visual impaired people who have suggested >>this, since they are forced to work on the command line (and the >>terminal is no real alternative with Orca). Actually, the missing >>accessibility in GVim is the reason for me to work on the console >>instead of working at the graphical desktop. [...] >I'm not sure this is all that easy. > >Some similar issues were discussed with relation to MacVim on the >vim_mac list, though. Search for posts by yvonne thomson on that list Mac and windows are in general a absolutely different scenario: on Mac and Windows the screenreader is trying to gather information from the graphics card. On GNOME, you have this AT-SPI-Daemon which is getting the information about the screen from the ATK-library, which is e. g. built into GTK+. The program is directly sending the information. So the problems Yvonne Thomson reported are the usual problems of a screenreader gathering information from the graphics card and detecting it as inaccessible because it is not used to the "graphical layout" etc.
Maybe the implementation is not as easy as I think, but the problem currently is that Vim doesn't report anything to AT-SPI and therefore there is nothing shown, neither in the insert nor in the visual mode. Thanks for any further hints/help Sebastian -- Test the free Latin-German dictionary | Teste das freie Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch! Online: http://freedict.org/dict?Form=dict3&Database=lat-deu More languages | mehr Sprachen: http://www.freedict.org -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
