D-Bus-based accessibility API
Olaf Schmidt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.accessibility |
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Hi! For those who are not subscribed to the Gnome accessibility list or heard otherwise: Trolltech have released the promised D-Bus-based accessibility API. They have made it available at: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDBusBridge They also wrote a poke tool: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/IAPoke Last but not least, they have a ported Dasher to use the API: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Accessibility/QDasher (They say that they plan to contribute their work back to the official Dasher repository once things it has matured a bit.) The API is close to both IAccessible2 and AT-SPI. If I understnad the approach that Trolltech has taken correctly, then they have: a) implemented everything that is in IAccessible2 (including the improvements that are missing in AT-SPI) b) implemented everything from AT-SPI that has been left out of IAccessible2 because it is available in MSAA c) _not_ implemented parts of AT-SPI that are unused by the existing assistive technologies and that have therefore also been left out in IAccessible2 Olaf