[Kde-accessibility] Some AT-SPI questions

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Friday 16 December 2005 13:52, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> Thanks for all your input.
>
> > Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > Leo Spalteholz:
> >> I've been looking into AT-SPI lately,
> >
> > Great!
>
> Girlfriend's gone home for the holidays, more time to hack! ;)
>
> On 12/16/05, Bill Haneman <Bill.Haneman at sun.com> wrote:
> > The only thing that strikes me as possibly a little odd is the
> > continuing use of the term "KDE developers" in the context of AT
> > clients.  I would prefer to just say "developers" in this context; in
> > what sense are they "KDE" rather than some other sort of developer, or
> > perhaps new developers without such a strong "brand loyalty" ?
>
> Yes, the way I understand it, people writing accessibility clients
> shouldn't be concerned with whether the users' apps are GTK or QT or
> what have you as long as they export the correct AT-SPI info.  (oddly
> enough, GOK cannot grab the menus of firefox, although I think Firefox
> does support AT-SPI.  Maybe only FF1.5 works properly in that respect)
>
> > >1.  How can KDE developers write KDE 3 AT clients today (using ATK
> > > bridge)?
> >
> > The ATK bridge isn't needed by the AT client; it is used to 'export'
> > accessibility info from ATK-implementing applications to AT-SPI.  So an
> > AT client using the KDE 3 libraries would need, at present, to speak the
> > AT-SPI "interface protocol", the simplest way is to link to libspi
> > (which for the time being pulls in ORBit2) or to use other bindings such
> > as the pyOrbit bindings.
>
> Ok.  So my best bet, writing a client using Qt would be to use libspi.
>  Is that the one documented here:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/at-spi/ ?

As I understand it however, your AT client will work with Gnome apps, but not 
with Qt3 apps.  It would work with Qt4 apps if you install Harald's 
experimental ATK bridge.  Have I got that right?

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php