This is something speakup could access? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: Re: An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > It is possible to query all available objects on the gnome desktop, or > > for a particular app, and obtain data, including text labels, data > > values, etc. So, it is reasonable to consider that one might, for > > instance, create an ncurses interface to gui applications. No one has > > built such an interface to my knowledge, but the opportunity is there. > > Actually, somebody has tried this. It is known as "cursing GTK." I > haven't tried it out, mainly because the person who was working on this > wasn't exactly fluent in English, and I couldn't comprehend exactly what > one would need to do to get it working. In any case, the web site for > this is at: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/cursed/cursed.html. As > I said, the English is pretty bad, but apparently, somebody with a lot of > patience might be able to make use of this. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
