#149 Qalculate-gtk Results Not Accessible with Orca
Qalculate-gtk works almost flawlessly with the screen reader Orca. The one problem is, it can't access the answer produced by calculations, which of course, makes it completely unusable to anyone using the screen reader. I asked on the Orca mail list to find out what the problme is, and got the following:
Looking at it visually, the result is in a non-focusable area vertically
in between the input entry and the row with two buttons and two combo boxes.
Looking at it with accerciser, that widget is a scroll pane, with a
single child of viewport which in turn has a single child with role
unknown. Orca generally tends to not present objects of role unknown
because it has no clue what to do with them. But for the sake of
argument, let's say we wanted to make an exception and hack around this
in Orca. This object of role unknown does not implement the text
interface, so I cannot ask it for its contents even if I wanted to hack
around it in Orca.
This needs to be fixed by the developers. Sorry!
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So, I was wondering if y'all would be willing to replace that with maybe a readonly box, or just fix the role and return text?
Qalculate development has stalled, with the last real activity in 2007. Unless someone steps up to work on the core source code, your screenreader issue will not be resolved. Instead, you can use the command-line interface "qalc". You might also explore the python module "pint".