Announcing ATK/AT-SPI Hackfest 2012
Piñeiro <[email protected]>
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This will come as no surprise to many of you at this point, as we already talked about it during the weekly accessibility meetings, but I would like to officially announce that we are having an ATK/AT-SPI2 Hackfest in January. Funnily enough one of the things to debate is if we should kill or not ATK. For the new people, ATK is the accessibility toolkit. Right now the main and more extensive implementation is done on GTK+ (a isolated module called GAIL on the past), although it is also used in Clutter (Cally), Java (via the Java Access Wrapper), Unity and others. AT-SPI is the accessibility service provider interface. Accessibility tools "uses" AT-SPI in order to interact with the applications. ATK works as the common language that target applications uses to expose themselves to AT-SPI. This is a follow-up of the ATK/AT-SPI hackfest that we organized on May (2011). We gathered a lot of information on that hackfest, and more information since then. We also worked on some aspects of that conclusion. In the same way some new actors appeared asking new questions. At may the main questions about the accessibility framework was how to improve ATK, AT-SPI, the ATK/AT-SPI relationship, and clarify and simplify the life of any ATK implementation. Now there are new questions related if the current pair and framework is the more suitable for our needs. And if the answer is "no", how to solve the situation without totally break current user experience? Who Should Attend? * Developers of applications and toolkits which implement ATK * Developers of ATK and AT-SPI * Developers of Assistive Technologies which rely upon AT-SPI * Developers of testing solutions which rely upon AT-SPI * Developers of Technologies used by the current framework, like DBUS Location: Igalia (A Coruña, Galicia, Spain) Dates: 18-22 January, 2012 For more information, including the proposed task, pre-event "homework," venue, and associated costs, please see: * Live GNOME Hackfest 2012 page : https://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfests/ATK2012 For the moment the event is sponsored by Igalia (Venue) and the GNOME Foundation (travel+hotel costs as far as we keep budget wise). Thank you very much to all the sponsors. If any other company want to fund this hackfest somehow, please contact me or Joanmarie Digss (and thanks in advance). Best regards === Piñeiro _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list