Forwarding to list. James McKenzie -----Forwarded Message----- >From: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Oct 12, 2010 7:43 AM >To: Seth Shelnutt <shelnutt2@xxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Accessibility in wine > >Seth Shelnutt <shelnutt2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>I can't seem to find much info on this. What is wine's support for MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) or >>the newer UIAutomation? I see that there is the oleacc dll which is the main >>dll for MSAA. According to the API site, is seems there are still 10 stubs. >>Looking at the source code there hasn't been any updates in over a year. We >>don't have the UIAutomation dll yet. Does anyone know the status of >>MSAA/UIAutomation support in wine? > >If there has been no work done on a particular dll for over a year, it may be that no one has the skill set needed to work on it or no one has reported problems with it. > >> >>I'm trying to get NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) working and still running into some issues with it >>requiring UIAutomation.dll, when according to them, that dll is optional. > >Please check our Bugzilla and if there is no bug report for NVDA, file one. Please include as much information as you can. If you can run the program from a command line (terminal) please ATTACH a log file showing the shortcomings of oleacc.dll and what the lack of the UIAutomation.dll file causes. > >>After I get that worked out I'm hoping to see what needs to be done to get >>MSAA supported under wine. > >Can you program and can you help improve Wine? That would be a bonus. Otherwise, filing bug reports helps the project know where to place effort to assist Wine users. It is not the intention of this project to snub those with disabilities. A lot of work was done to get Dragon Naturally Speaking working and it seems to be broken again with version 11 per other reports filed in the User Forum. > >James McKenzie
