[ocemp-devel] Accessibility support available in OcempGUI

[Marcus v. A. <ma...@sy...>]

Hi,

yesterday I solved the most critical show-stopper for the low-level
accessibility support of OcempGUI, which I mentioned earlier. A first
rudimentary Atk interface is now available in the development tree (it
can be found beneath ocempgui/access/papi). Some example code, which
makes use of it, will be checked in the next days.

The interface is written in C, so that future versions of OcempGUI will
need a C compiler (if one uses the source distribution) in order to
build the interface. It can be used as standalone system within any
python project and is not directly dependant on the other parts of
OcempGUI. Its only dependencies are the Atk library, Glib[0] and
AT-SPI[1] for loading the atk-bridge, which interfaces with systems such
as screenreaders or braille systems.

The setup was changed to allow the installation of OcempGUI without the
need of a C compiler and/or Atk, but the interface then will not be
built and thus the ocempgui.access module not usable for the developer.

I will post more details the next days.

[0] http://www.gtk.org
[1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap

Regards
Marcus