Hi Mark,
Thanks so much for your message.
The finding of such hooks is up to the assistive technology and isn't a
problem, I would think.
However, the problem is that none of the file menus, buttons, or other
controls in Ethereal read correctly. It's not like the technology totally
doesn't see them, because I can do such things as use a cursor mode to see
certain text in windows like "filter" and detect controls like combo boxes,
check boxes, and the like. However, interaction with such controls is close
to 0, I'm afraid to report.
I will, apologetically, admit my familiar with the programming side of
accessibility is a great deal stronger on windows than it is on *nix, but it
be possible to find out if there is anything that ethereal can do with
respect to labeling buttons, making controls available, and so forth?
By the way ... If anyone can get gnopernicus working on gnome, you can hear
what I'm hearing, or lack there of.
Take care,
Sina
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Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal and accessibility?
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This is perhaps not much help, but at least a starting point.
Ethereal uses Gtk+, and Gtk+ requires Atk, the "accessibility toolkit".
So there should be hooks in there for screen readers and the like. This
appears to be the foundation of Gnome's support for such technology since it
is also built on Gtk+.
Unfortunately the Atk Library Reference Manual doesn't say much about how an
assistive application would find those hooks, and since I've not yet tried
to build such an application I can't tell you what to search for.
But this page:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/GNOME-Accessibility.html
suggests that an aid built for Gnome should "just work" with a Gtk+
application.
Meanwhile there are some notes at:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/guide/gad/index.html
which may help folks improve on the built-in accessibility support provided
to Ethereal by Gtk+.
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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@xxxxxxxxx
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