MSAA for Linux

[Saqib Shaikh]

ultrasonics was developed until about 98, but stopped because there aren't
enough c++ developers willing to work on it.
saqib shaikh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc at MIT.EDU>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: MSAA for Linux


> Well, not exactly MSAA, but something in the spirit of MSAA for linux
would
> be a *great* thing. MSAA allows a process to ask another process about its
> internals. The questions which can be asked and the data which can be
> gathered about process  X by process Y are carefully designed to minimize
> security concerns and to be particularly useful to a screen reader. To put
> it another way, if process X is a screen reader and process Y is, say, a
web
> browser, then process X is going to want to know a bunch of things about
> process Y in order to allow a blind user to interact with it. Actually, if
> process X could just get hold of the parsed html (this tree is usually
> called the document object model - DOM), then the screen reader would be
> able to do great things. If you look at the jfw scripts for internet
> explorer, there is a call which returns a DOM object. The function called
is
> not defined anywhere in JFW; its a magic call  made posible by MSAA.
> As fare as I know, the ultrasonix screen reader for X-Windows is based
upon
> similar technology. With X, however, implementing a protocol which can
allow
> any process to gather this kind of information from another process is
> complex and risks exposing too much, making security a problem. There are
> other issues too which I'm not really up on, but I do believe that X now
has
> RAP and ICE protocols (romote access protocol, and I'm not sure what ICE
> stands for), but I'm not sure how fully developed they or ultrasonix are
at
> present.
> Can anyone shed more light on this?
>
>                     Rich
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Tsaran" <tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: NICHOLAS PETRELEY: "The Open Source" from InfoWorld.com,
> Wednesday, June 27, 2001
>
>
> > I think this is a very interesting article. How do we, VIP, benefit from
> the
> > powerful and yet easy-to-use KDE version 2.1? Unfortunately, we can see
it
> > happening more often that more and more programs are written for
X-Window.
> > Don't tell me there are console alternatives for every GUI program, this
> is
> > no longer true. MSAA for Linux is what we need!
> > Best,
> > Vic
> >
> >
> >
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