Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal and accessibility?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Duigou wrote:

> Some ATK support should come "automagically" by just switching to GTK 
> 2.X APIs. For things like menus and text edit controls the ATK support 
> is built right in for the standard controls. The developer doesn't need 
> to do anything special for basic support.

Perhaps, but the person who started this thread said

> 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.

so perhaps that "automagic" stuff isn't working - or perhaps they were 
using the GTK+ 1.2[.x] version, or perhaps they were running on Windows 
and the ATK stuff doesn't connect to the Windows assistive technologies 
mechanism (but they mentioned Gnopernicus and GNOME so that might not be 
the answer).