xdg-app accessibility?

[Owen Taylor]

It's useful to clarify that there is no conceptual problem. Accessibility tools like screenreaders will run unsandboxed, and sandboxed applications only need to export information out to the accessibility tools.

The problem is simply that the current accessibility framework isn't necessarily set up to separate out the operations that an application needs from the operations that an AT needs.

- Owen

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 21:07 -0500, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all
> > I've just read christian's fedora workstation update article. This
> > got
> > me thinking. I would like to, if possible, have by fedora 24, at
> > least a
> > basic level of functioning accessibility for xdg-app compliant
> > applications.
> 
> xdg-app by itself should not really affect the accessibility code.
> Although it may need some minor tweaks, as I have not tested it.
> 
> However, if you want to run apps that are sandboxed then things are
> much trickier. The accessibility dbus APIs are completely unsafe and
> lets any app fully control any other app. I have no idea whatsoever how
> hard it would be to fix this, or how the fix would look.
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