Hello, A new project has recently been added to freedesktop.org that aims to translate the AT-SPI interface to D-Bus and provide API compatible replacements for the AT-SPI libraries. The project was started with GNOME's deprecation of CORBA in mind, but also with the goal of providing cross-desktop accessibility.
Coding began about in May of 2008 and a-lot of progress has been made. There has not yet been a release, and the code is development quality, but it would be very useful for people involved in the accessibility community to take a look, test, and tell us where we might be going wrong. The repository is available at: http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/at-spi2/at-spi2-core.git or git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/at-spi2/at-spi2-core.git Included in this codebase is: A D-Bus version of the ATK bridge library. A D-Bus version of the AT-SPI Registry daemon. A D-Bus version of the pyatspi library. A D-Bus version of the cspi library (Currently in disrepair) The D-Bus AT-SPI specifications. A page detailing the current status of the project and instructions for testing is located at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/AT-SPI_on_D-Bus. The mailing list for the project is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope that these libraries will one day be stable enough to replace the CORBA versions, as the use of D-Bus has a number of advantages to GNOME accessibility. I think the most important of these is that we improve our chances of having QT applications accessible using GNOME tools such as Orca, Accerciser and GOK, as well as gaining the possibility of these tools being used in KDE. Thanks Mark _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
