Excellent Progress Made at GNOME Accessibility Hackfest

GNOME News 03.02.2012 01:00 The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the which was held from January 18th to 22th at Igalia’s offices in A Coruña, Spain. There were attendees from several companies and organizations including Red Hat, SUSE, Igalia, Mozilla and Nokia with different backgrounds and expertise in areas like GTK, ATK, AT-SPI2, Qt, WebKitGtk+ and Gecko.    by The hackfest was very productive, some of the highlights included: It was agreed to as soon as an alternative implementation is provided. Several approaches for this implementation where discussed. Accessibility support for WebKitGtk+ has been further improved with a , as well as exposing WebKit2Gtk+, accessibility hierarchies to ATK/AT-SPI. Ideas for a more efficient and effective were discussed, with the goal of keeping DBus messages traffic to a minimum. There was an important discussion about . The aim here is to make sure that only the relevant events are sent to accessibility clients. In the short term, the current goblal-events hook-based implementation will be maintained, but we will be exploring alternatives. It was concluded that in order to , we shouldn’t use ATK-bridge as a module, but integrate it in the core platform. Several possible approaches were discussed, and we set the aim of having a concrete plan decided by the time GNOME 3.4 is released. These and other accessibility underpinnings were worked on, which will effectively improve the experience of GNOME users who need accessibility features. There are many challenges in the near future of accessibility and GNOME is currently campaigning to raise funds to support its ongoing efforts. . The GNOME Foundation and community are very grateful to the sponsors of this event:

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