I've heard conflicting descriptions of what IA2 is good for. Some NVDA guys seem to think it's a Windows only interface, designed to get around some limitations in the old Microsoft interface, and that because of COM objects and other windows-specific stuff in IA2, it will never run in Gnome on Linux. However, the IA2 documentation says pretty clearly that it is intended to also run on Linux.
What's the actual case? Does it make any sense to port IA2 to Linux? What would the game-plan be, and is anyone actually working on it? Exactly which applications should we consider accessing through the IA2 interface? Thunderbird and Firefox both have better maintained and tested IA2 interfaces than atk interfaces. It might be a pretty good thing to access these applications through IA2. I hear mixed stories about OpenOffice, but a similar argument may apply. QT is a different story. I've heard they don't use IA2 in Windows, and that the IA2 interface is their effort to support Linux. Is this the case? The lack of an atk QT interface may be the single strongest argument for supporting IA2 in Gnome. However, if the QT IA2 interface is unfinished, and only meant for Linux support, wouldn't it be simpler to modify it to use atk, rather than write an IA2 to at-spi plugin? So, in short, exactly what is the vision of IA2 for Linux? Thanks, Bill _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
