[compiz] Accessibility of Cairo/OpenGL text: ATK without GTK?

[Luis González]

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.webb at 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.
>
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> Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb at canonical.com>
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Luis F. González V.