Monday, October 14, 2013

AT-SPI2

Assistive technologies, such as screen readers or magnifiers, can use this logical representation to enable individuals with disabilities to browse and interact with applications.The Accessibility ToolKit (ATK) is a development toolkit from GNOME which allows programmers to use common GNOME accessibility features, such as high-contrast visual themes for the visually-impaired and keyboard behavior modifiers for those with diminished motor control, to make GNOME applications accessible.

The Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI) is a toolkit-neutral way of facilitating accessibility in applications, by using native accessibility APIs. AT-SPI2 is, as was the intention from the beginning, a platform-neutral framework for providing bi-directional communication between assistive technologies (AT) and applications. Through the use of AT-SPI, an application's components' state, property and role information is communicated directly to the end user's AT, thereby facilitating bi-directional (input and output) user interactivity with, and control over, an application or compound document instance.

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