[Wine] Fw: Re: Accessibility in wine

[James Mckenzie]

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James McKenzie

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>From: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Oct 12, 2010 7:43 AM
>To: Seth Shelnutt <shelnutt2 at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Accessibility in wine
>
>Seth Shelnutt <shelnutt2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I can't seem to find much info on this. What is wine's support for MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) or
>>the newer UIAutomation? I see that there is the oleacc dll which is the main
>>dll for MSAA. According to the API site, is seems there are still 10 stubs.
>>Looking at the source code there hasn't been any updates in over a year. We
>>don't have the UIAutomation dll yet. Does anyone know the status of
>>MSAA/UIAutomation support in wine?
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>If there has been no work done on a particular dll for over a year, it may be that no one has the skill set needed to work on it or no one has reported problems with it.  
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>>
>>I'm trying to get NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) working and still running into some issues with it
>>requiring UIAutomation.dll, when according to them, that dll is optional.
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>Please check our Bugzilla and if there is no bug report for NVDA, file one.  Please include as much information as you can.  If you can run the program from a command line (terminal) please ATTACH a log file showing the shortcomings of oleacc.dll and what the lack of the UIAutomation.dll file causes.
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>>After I get that worked out I'm hoping to see what needs to be done to get
>>MSAA supported under wine.
>
>Can you program and can you help improve Wine?  That would be a bonus.  Otherwise, filing bug reports helps the project know where to place effort to assist Wine users.  It is not the intention of this project to snub those with disabilities.  A lot of work was done to get Dragon Naturally Speaking working and it seems to be broken again with version 11 per other reports filed in the User Forum.
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>James McKenzie