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Re: [pygame] Tutorial... GUI



On, Thu Sep 27, 2007, James Paige wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:19:28PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> > On, Thu Sep 27, 2007, RR4CLB wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Marcus,
> > > 
> > >     I had my son come over to read the screen and when moving the
> > > mouse over the icon it did change color from red to white, but my
> > > screen reader mouse control was reading the other screen yet moving
> > > over that location. I also noticed that when trying to focus it kept
> > > saying to me "Top Menu!" For some odd reason it was not tracking the
> > > mouse movement at all, my screen reader was not.
> > 
> > Hm, why does it say "Top Menu!"? I am not familiar with screen readers
> > that much - can you assign them to treat different areas of a window in
> > different ways? 
> > 
> 
> Anybody can run a screen reader on their computer. I would be curious to 
> know what specific screen reader software that RR4CLB is using, and 
> whether or not it is available for free, or if it is something you have 
> to pay for.

I should have been more specific on that: The only screen readers I know
for Windows use the MSAA system to provide information about the
controls of a program. The same applies to the currently available ones
for Linux/Unix (Orca and Gnopernicus). Those rely on ATK/AT-SPI
accessibility system.

This makes both types unusable for the description of graphical elements
(in case those do not expose one of those interfaces, MSAA or
ATK/AT-SPI).

Regards
Marcus

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