Re: [Kde-accessibility] Information about orca

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Do you mean, for getting a graphical snapshot of what X displays? You
would then have to use an OCR for getting text...

In theory, it might be possible to create an X server that intercepted the calls and made an internal representation of them that was more accessible and navigable. One might start Xorg with either the frame-buffer driver ("fbdev"), or even the "virtual frame-buffer server" (Xvfb) which doesn't require any sort of video card at all.

I don't think anybody has attempted this, but, IMHO, it's the best sort of place to build an accessible-GUI solution for Linux/BSD, as (much like JAWS) it's an interceptor of all the calls for drawing and rendering text on the screen. It wouldn't rely on a particular toolkit (GTK or KDE), but rather would work with every X application that used standard text-rendering functionality.

Just a few thoughts on the matter...

-tim



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