Bug #125987 for Tcl-pTk: [upstream Tcl/Tk issue][macOS] Widgets do not accept speech-to-text input

Thu Aug 02 11:37:22 2018 kellyobrein77 [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	[macOS] Widgets do not accept speech-to-text input
Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2018 16:37:10 +0100
To:	bug-Tcl-pTk [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Kelly O'brein" <kellyobrein77 [...] gmail.com>

On my macOS (HighSierra), tcl 8.5, it seems that no widget (Entry as well as Text) is able to accept the standard speech-to-text input it comes along with macOS. As STT is quite a common feature nowadays, it would be great if Tcl::pTk (or Tcl: I am not aware which is responsible for this incompatibility) would accept it too.

Thu Aug 02 11:43:46 2018 CAC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Aug 02 10:37:22 2018, kellyobrein77@gmail.com wrote:
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> On my macOS (HighSierra), tcl 8.5, it seems that no widget (Entry as well
> as Text) is able to accept the standard speech-to-text input it comes along
> with macOS. As STT is quite a common feature nowadays, it would be great
> if Tcl::pTk (or Tcl: I am not aware which is responsible for this
> incompatibility) would accept it too.

Thanks for opening this. For reference, I'm leaving a link to your post on Stack Overflow (along with my answer containing some initial investigation): https://stackoverflow.com/q/50659910/4896937

Thu Aug 02 11:43:47 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Feb 27 23:57:04 2019 CAC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

For reference, this affects Tcl::Tk as well: RT #127873

Mon Mar 04 05:05:43 2019 CAC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I've since observed difficulty using dictation even in pure Tcl/Tk examples, so I've opened a ticket: https://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview/fdbdcc8c3c0d49070107e8160b46d683650baa69

Tue Mar 19 20:54:54 2019 CAC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Just an update: I had received a reply from one of the Tk Aqua developers indicating that Tk currently makes no effort to support accessibility features:

Tk has no support for accessibility API's on any platform. It would be a great, if complicated, project for someone to take on.

I responded that, although I am not familiar with the Cocoa API, I am under the impression that supporting dictation should not involve any special accessibility API, and that this was something Cocoa apps using the standard widgets are provided "for free" so that dictation is available to users of existing programs without developer intervention.

Tue Mar 19 20:54:55 2019 CAC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

Wed Jun 05 02:26:14 2019 CAC [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from '[macOS] Widgets do not accept speech-to-text input' to '[upstream Tcl/Tk issue][macOS] Widgets do not accept speech-to-text input'

Wed Apr 01 15:57:09 2020 CAC [...] cpan.org - Reference by https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125987 added

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Wed Apr 01 15:58:34 2020 CAC [...] cpan.org - Reference to ticket #127873 added