OT: "skype" anyone?

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Wed Nov 24 12:46:28 EST 2004


the problem is if you are talking to other sited people. like it or 
not console apps are ugly. A sited person usually prefers something 
that's easy to setup and use such as ventrilo/skipe.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 
at 10:00:42AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> It's not a question of liklihood, only of when. The answer is not very
> soon. QT accessibility comes with QT 4.0, and 3.3 was just released.
> Then, after the accessible ATK, the application developers would need to
> decide to rewrite their application with the new widget set.
> 
> Meanwhile, why not just use Asterisk like so many others in our
> community? Not only is it accessible today, but there is an emerging
> standard for interfacing various voip solutions automatically:
> 
> http://www.dundi.com/
> 
> Luke Yelavich writes:
> > The Linux version uses QT, which is likely to become accessible in the 
> > future. Just how far into the future I am unaware, but I know work is 
> > being done to make it work with GNOME accessibility tools like 
> > Gnopernicus.
> 
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