[Accessibility] Item 1: AT-SPI (Much Revised)
Bill Haneman
bill.haneman at sun.com
Mon Sep 8 09:30:57 PDT 2003
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:25, Sharon D Snider wrote:
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> Hi Janina, I just made a few minor changes...
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> 1.)AT-SPI
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> The Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI) was developed
> for the GNOME2 desktop and is in the process of being adopted by KDE.
Potential confusion/inaccuracy here; KDE's Qt toolkit developers have
announced that they are adopting 'ATK' which is "bridged" to AT-SPI.
However for our purposes the above wording is probably OK.
The next sentence should probably be reworded:
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"AT-SPI is toolkit-neutral and support already exists for a wide variety
of languages and toolkits. For instance, AT-SPI is currently compatible
with and supported by GTK+ 2, Java/Swing, the Mozilla suite, and
StarOffice/OpenOffice.org. Support via reuse of the related "ATK"
interface in version 4 of KDE's Qt toolkit has been announced by
TrollTech.
AT-SPI allows assistive technologies access to these applications, and
> expose the internals of these applications to provide automation, so tools
> such as screen readers, magnifiers, or even scripting interfaces can query
> and interact with the graphical user interface (GUI) controls."
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> AT-SPI facilitates access for individuals who cannot use the standard GUI.
> It enables developers (or a third party) to build applications that are, or
> can be made accessible. The AT-SPI enables developers and distributions to
> meet the accessibility requirements of many individual and corporate
> customers.
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> AT-SPI is a finished product that we propose to adopt.
I don't know if we should say 'finished product', let's say "existing
API"
- Bill
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> Sharon Snider
> Linux Accessibility, and Information Development
> IBM Linux Technology Services
> (512) 838-4127, T/L 678-4127
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> Janina Sajka
> <janina at rednote.net> To: accessibility at freestandards.org
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> accessibility-admin at freest Subject: [Accessibility] Item 1: AT-SPI (Much Revised)
> andards.org
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> 09/05/2003 01:48 PM
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> 1.) AT-SPI
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> The Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI)
> was developed in GNOME2 and is in process of adoption by KDE. at-spi
> allows assistive technologies to access GTK2-based applications.
> Essentially it
> exposes the internals of applications for automation, so tools such as
> screen readers, magnifiers, or even scripting interfaces can query and
> interact
> with GUI controls. It facilitates access for individuals who cannot use the
> standard graphical interface. It enables developers to build applications
> that they (or a third party) can make accessible. It enables developers and
> distributions to meet accessibility requirements of individual and
> corporate
> customers.
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> AT-SPI is a finished product that we propose to adopt.
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> --
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> Janina Sajka, Director
> Technology Research and
> Development
> Governmental Relations
> Group
> American Foundation for
> the Blind (AFB)
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> Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
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