Microsoft UIA also has properties associated with a specific control.

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> On Jan 6, 2015, at 11:08 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Devin,
> 
> This is exactly how the program is structured. In trees. Theres nothing new 
> there. Nothing changes to the way you handle things. It’s just graphicsless. 
> the actions and moving are the same.
> 
> And I don’t think it’s about because it didn’t work then, it won’t now. 
> Different techniques are applied now, the major players, jaws, nvda and voice 
> over are tree structures. They all take from the lower layers of the 
> software, down to almost machine code. So the control is enormous. If in 
> sighted mode, its a tree with mathematical or algebraic sets, it’s obviously 
> the same with voice over except that you have a range of user interface 
> elements like buttons etc which have particular properties. Do you need a 
> graphic for that? No, just the boundaries of the object in space, which is 
> taken care of by the coco framework.
> 
> Anyway, this is developer stuff I should find a developer group.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> Yuma Antoine Decaux
> "Light has no value without darkness"
> Mob: +612102277190
> Skype: Shainobi1
> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 7/01/2015, at 11:21 am, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Well that's the main problem, that there is rarely any programming group 
>> interested in that. 
>> 
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>>> On Jan 6, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Sean Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If people want to do an open source solution of what have been outlined 
>>> here, go for it. I would be very interested to see if anyone would take it 
>>> up. A lot of work. There was a screen reader on the windows which used a 
>>> tree view like structure to navigate the GUI. It was a German product from 
>>> memory. Don’t know if it still exists and it was removing the visual 
>>> aspects away from the vision impaired person. A very interesting concept.
>>> 
>>> The Orca people haven’t gone in this direction either. This would be one 
>>> environment the described concept could be tested in to see if it could be 
>>> achieved.
>>> 
>>> I don’t have the programming skills to help here.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sean 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 7 Jan 2015, at 12:44 am, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Shawn,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your input. 
>>>> 
>>>> Sometimes it's good to see where this corporate behaviour is going. Are 
>>>> you hitting the spot completely? Am I right? Who cares? Essentially 
>>>> there's an interest, and there is creating the environment to facilitate 
>>>> the idea.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yuma Antoine Decaux
>>>> "Light has no value without darkness"
>>>> Mob: +612102277190
>>>> Skype: Shainobi1
>>>> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 6/01/2015, at 8:10 pm, Sean Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have to go against the grain. If you think Apple or any other vendor is 
>>>>> going to spend time on building a non-graphical environment as outlined 
>>>>> on this thread. It will not occur due to no market.  We are .5% of the 
>>>>> market thus there is no business requirement for them and they will not 
>>>>> get their ROI.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The CLI on the Mac does provide text base applications if you like to 
>>>>> learn. people like things to be easy, thus why we have GUI now.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sean 
>>>>>> On 3 Jan 2015, at 5:19 am, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Where and when is the nFB? I heard a few conflicting ideas about the 
>>>>>> organisation. But I would take the momentum to engage the voice.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yuma Antoine Decaux
>>>>>> "Light has no value without darkness"
>>>>>> Mob: +612102277190
>>>>>> Skype: Shainobi1
>>>>>> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 2/01/2015, at 12:59 pm, Joanne Chua <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What about if we start asking Apple to make some products that is
>>>>>>> specificly for voiceover, and don't worry about GPU at all hey? Won't
>>>>>>> it be great? Maybe, someone might want to bring this up on this year
>>>>>>> NFB convention?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 02/01/2015, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What I'm trying to induce here is the sense that no matter the graphic
>>>>>>>> outline, everything starts graphicsless and elements are pulled out of 
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> lower layers, such as kernel, login daemons etc. The graphics layer 
>>>>>>>> itself
>>>>>>>> cannot be omitted since it is also the core of a lot of coco frameworks
>>>>>>>> which voice over relies on.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> However, when I say graphcsless, I mean to place to a minimum all of 
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> animations and flash and graphics that appear. I would easily 
>>>>>>>> visualise a UI
>>>>>>>> which borders, buttons and everything else are just placeholders with 
>>>>>>>> plain
>>>>>>>> black and borders that don't load images. No background image, no 
>>>>>>>> transition
>>>>>>>> animations, no stupid bouncing apps that go "hey I'm here" etc etc. 
>>>>>>>> This can
>>>>>>>> free up ressources and reserve them for voice over itself.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Yuma Antoine Decaux
>>>>>>>> "Light has no value without darkness"
>>>>>>>> Mob: +612102277190
>>>>>>>> Skype: Shainobi1
>>>>>>>> twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 2/01/2015, at 10:03 am, Jason White <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> BobH. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I think a lot of us have said for a good while, that modern 'puters 
>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>> 99%
>>>>>>>>>> eye candy or effects;  and maybe as much as 1% real work, though 
>>>>>>>>>> doubt
>>>>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> DOS worked so well, cos it did none of that.  Boring to the sighted, 
>>>>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> even they were more focussed on getting real info in or out and not 
>>>>>>>>>> just
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> there to play with it.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> So, yes,  a cutToTheQwik system  that took us back to doing the stuff
>>>>>>>>>> we're
>>>>>>>>>> doing, without all the other overhead, would have some use; can 
>>>>>>>>>> think of
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> professional areas where it would be saleable for it's simplicity;  
>>>>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>>>> doubt it's going to happen.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> It's already happening. If you work primarily from the Linux console
>>>>>>>>> (just
>>>>>>>>> using the GUI for tasks that require it, e.g., Web browsing), you
>>>>>>>>> essentially
>>>>>>>>> have what you've described.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> this can't be done in the same way under OS X, which always loads a
>>>>>>>>> graphical
>>>>>>>>> desktop environment.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm writing this message from a Linux virtual terminal.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> So far as the two operating systems are concerned, there are some
>>>>>>>>> applications
>>>>>>>>> for which I like to use OS X, but it's my Linux laptop that I'm using
>>>>>>>>> most
>>>>>>>>> often at home just now, even though the Macbook is newer.
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