A curious thing: In compiz v0.8.*, the screen reader correctly vocalizes the window title. Maybe it would be an starting point, wouldn't it?
2015-04-13 8:55 GMT-04:30, Stephen M. Webb <stephen.w...@canonical.com>: > On 15-04-13 09:05 AM, Luca Saiu wrote: >> >> While playing with Compiz window switchers (there are several) I noticed >> that the selected window name is displayed but not vocalized by the >> screen reader. >> >> I was initially surprised after discovering that the window title is not >> drawn with GTK; but I understand that Compiz itself does not actually >> depend on GTK --- only the GTK window decorator and CCSM use it. So >> Compiz renders text using Cairo on top of an OpenGL surface, which is >> all very reasonable. >> >> In this situation, what's the cleanest way of making the selected window >> title accessible? Is there an easy way of using ATK without making a >> GTK label just for the purpose, or should I try some other route? > > I'm not sure if we want to start dragging all kinds of external dependencies > into many generic plugins, especially > massive foreign libraries like those from the Glib family (eg. ATK). The > preferred option would be to provide a > separate plugin that performs the TTS as appropriate, and that plugin can > pull in whatever evil necessities it wants. > > -- > Stephen M. Webb <stephen.w...@canonical.com> > _______________________________________________ > compiz mailing list > compiz@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz > -- Salu2 Luis F. González V. _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
