Friday December 15, 2006
IBM has announced IAccessible2
Yesterday IBM has announced
"IAccessible2".
IAccessible2 is an API (application
programming interface) designed for Windows.
It fills the gap
between existing Accessibility API called MSAA or IAccessible, which
is not very complete, and full featured Accessibility API like in
GNOME (ATK), Java (JAA) or OpenOffice.org (UAA).
Actually, the
work is directly derived from the OpenOffice.org UNO Accessibility
API, as you can see on the Sun copyright in the IDL
files.
The API is not proprietary, but given to the Free
Standards Group for further standardization.
Because of
IAccessible2 is just extending IAccessible, not replacing it, AT
vendors should be able to support that quite easily. This should
result in much better support from a broader range of Assistive
Technology on Windows for Mozilla and OpenOffice.org in the future!
Posted by Malte Timmermann
( Dec 15 2006, 11:33:39 AM CET )
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