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From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:29:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <036c01c4f7f2$59f48580$6601a8c0@geekspeak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050111151112.GU790@rednote.net>

Hi -- thanks for the link -- I'll take a look -- but as for MSAA, the 
library implementation is proprietary to Microsoft, but the interface is 
not -- in fact the library is available for use in any windows app, whether 
developed on linux or whatever.  In fact I have heard firefox is using it 
for its windows implementation.  I guess what I was wondering is if the same 
or at least similar object library interface might be appropriate for use 
cross platform.  Of course the underlying implementation would be different, 
but the information passed to a screen reader -- say to recognize text boxes 
and navigate controls on a GUI -- would be enough the same that the MSAA 
interface could be used.
But now that I think of it, Microsoft I hear is going another direction with 
respect to accessibility, so that MSAA may become obsolete for windows in a 
a year or two.  Ah the joys of competition...  Perhaps they are thinking of 
grabbing business away from the screen reader companies??? they deny it but 
if they are removing MSAA I assume there is a reason.
Take care.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux


To learn about the "hooks," as you call them, consult the developer
pages at:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/

Laura Eaves writes:
> Well, on windows, acrobat7 is actually the release that makes pdf
> accessible -- if you have jaws6 that is.  but it is interesting that a
> similar update is being created for linux.
> I'm not familiar with gnopernicus, but does anyone know what hooks are 
> used
> there to make an app accessible? on windows it is MSAA.
> Or is the interface the same as MSAA?


Definitely not MSAA. <shudder>


After all, that's Microsoft's proprietary property, right? Not open
source nor a free license at all.

> Just curious.
> --le

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                 ` Janina Sajka
                   ` Adam Myrow
                     ` Sean McMahon
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           ` Gregory Nowak
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