Willie Walker's Weblog

  Today, Christian Persch did the final work to migrate GAIL (GNOME Accessbility Implementation Library) into GTK+ (see bug 169488). This is exciting for me because it represents yet another significant and bold step in the GNOME community to deeply integrate accessibility in its offering.

For some background on this, the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI) represents a platform neutral API that defines how assistive technologies such as Orca interact with applications. It is currently based on CORBA, and the interfaces are defined in IDL.

For all intents and purposes, the Accessibility Toolkit (ATK) describes a set of interfaces that support the AT-SPI on the GUI application side. The interfaces are toolkit-independent -- implementations could be written for any widget set, such as GTK, Motif or Qt. The implementation for the GTK widgets live in GAIL.

Way to go guys!