Downloading and installing screen readers with a script

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AT Driver defines a protocol for introspection and remote control of assistive technology software, using a bidirectional communication channel.

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Downloading and installing screen readers with a script #14

Closed zcorpan closed 5 months ago

zcorpan commented 2 years ago

From the ARIA-AT automation meeting on March 28, 2022: w3c/aria-at-automation#17 (minutes)

There is a need for downloading and installing screen readers with a script (e.g. in a CI environment) (for screen readers that aren't already available on the OS).

Desire to test different versions of a screen reader in parallel (or sequentially)
Are there portable executables for each screen reader?
Can you install simultaneously multiple versions of the same reader?

cc @mcking65 @s3ththompson

lolaodelola commented 5 months ago

@jugglinmike My understanding is that this is solved with the new automation tool? Can this issue be closed?

jugglinmike commented 5 months ago

@lolaodelola We have not solved this problem[^1], but I'm comfortable closing the issue anyway because it now seems out-of-scope for this repository (this repository is currently focused on defining a document which has no need for such a script).

[^1]: For context: as of January 2024, the ARIA-AT project allows Test Admins to initiate fully-automated AT response collection jobs. It does this by triggering work as defined by this GitHub repository (which includes a complete copy of NVDA that has been manually packaged with the "AT Driver" add-on for NVDA).