ATK 2.16.0 released

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A new major version of the stable version of ATK has just been released.

 

About ATK

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GNOME provides support for accessibility devices using the ATK

framework. This framework defines a set of interfaces to which

graphical interface components adhere. This allows, for instance,

screen readers to read the text of an interface and interact with its

controls. ATK support is built into GTK+ and the rest of the GNOME

platform, so any application using GTK+ will have reasonable

accessibility support for free.

 

Nonetheless, you should be aware of accessibility issues when when

developing your applications. Although GTK+ interfaces provide

reasonable accessibility by default, you can often improve how well

your program behaves with accessibility tools by providing additional

information to ATK. If you develop custom widgets, you should ensure

that they expose their properties to ATK.

 

 

News (compared with 2.14.0)

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* AtkRole:

* Bug 739981: Add ATK_ROLE_STATIC and clarify ATK_ROLE_TEXT

* Bug 742806: Add new roles for fractions, roots, subscripts, and

superscripts

* AtkState:

* Bug 407539: Add ATK_STATE_HAS_TOOLTIP

* Bug 665598: Add ATK_STATE_READ_ONLY

* Building:

* Bug 744413: Stop using deprecated GNOME-specific autoconf macros

on configure.ac

* Stop using deprecated gnome-autogen.sh on autogen.sh

* Documentation:

* Updated README file

* Bug 740152: Document the deprecation of ATK_STATE_ARMED

* Bug 737602: Update documentation to reflect an additional use

case for STATE_INDETERMINATE

* Bug 740044: Fix some unclear language regarding ATK_STATE_ACTIVE

* Bug 740066: Improve documentation related to AtkState and

AtkStateSet

* Extend atk_focus_tracker_notify deprecation documentation

* Remove some in-code documentation, that is already part of the

docs

Bugfixing:

* Unref STATE_TYPE class ref after using it at state_type_get_name

* AtkTable: Added missing ":" on one gi annotation

* Bug 746459: Fix a couple of GTK-Doc comment blocks

* Visual Studio support

* Speed Up Release Builds

* Fix and improve .pdb Generation.

* "Install" .pdb Files

 

 

Contributors:

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Joanmarie Diggs, Chun-wei Fan, Javier Jardón, Alejandro Piñeiro

Iglesias

 

 

Translations:

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Josef Andersson (sv), Anders Jonsson (sv), Jiri Grönroos (fi),

Muhammet Kara (tr), Dušan Kazik (sk), Baurzhan Muftakhidinov (kk),

Samir Ribic (bs), Zahari Yurukov (bg)

 

Download

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https://download.gnome.org/sources/atk/2.16/atk-2.16.0.tar.xz (683K)

sha256sum:

095f986060a6a0b22eb15eef84ae9f14a1cf8082488faa6886d94c37438ae562

 

 

 

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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias

 

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