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Ticket UUID: 0e294d9604b4196b9ca41451400730063a659c70
Title: TK does not provide accessibility information to Orca Screen Reader for Linux
Type: Bug Version: all
Submitter: anonymous Created on: 2015-03-25 19:27:29
Subsystem: 67. Unix Window Operations Assigned To: nobody
Priority: 5 Medium Severity: Critical
Status: Open Last Modified: 2020-03-28 10:21:06
Resolution: None Closed By: nobody
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Description:
Any tk widgets created report as inaccessible to the Orca Screen Reader. I'm guessing it just isn't presenting information to at-spi. But, this makes any tk app unusable by blind Linux users.
The information needed to make tk accessible can be found at:
https://developer.gnome.org/atk/stable/
User Comments: fvogel added on 2020-03-28 10:21:06:

For the records, a discussion (with implementation notes) just happened on the Tcl Core list.


dkf added on 2016-08-22 08:30:46:

The useful term in the original ticket was at-spi. It requires access to dbus, according to Wikipedia.


aku added on 2015-03-25 19:39:53:
What are the underlying APIs you are Tk expecting to use ?
Some X11 extension ?
Do you have links to the specifications of these APIs ?
Are these APIs portable, or specific to Linux, or X11 ?