news 28 Posted March 19, 2012 About ATK ========= 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. You should also avoid using sound, graphics, or color as the sole means of conveying information to the user. The GNOME desktop ships with a number of accessibility tools which enable users with disabilities to take full advantage of their desktop and applications. Applications that fully implement ATK will be able to work with the accessibility tools. GNOME's accessibility tools include a screen reader, a screen magnifier, an on-screen keyboard, and Dasher, an predictive text entry tool. News ==== * Bug 665549: add sanity-check of atk_text_get_text * Bug 668441: atk_action_get_keybinding docs are confusing and need * up[censored] * Using abstract atk_object_get_name to check accessible-name * notification Translations ============ * be, courtesy of Kasia Bondarava * et, courtesy of Mattias Põldaru * hu, courtesy of Attila Hammer * nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas * tr, courtesy of Muhammet Kara * ug, courtesy of Sahran * uk, courtesy of Korostil Daniel Download ======== Tarball is available in the following location on ftp.gnome.org: http://download.gnome.org/sources/atk/2.3/ 5531d23434bc458145651bea57d6f22e6a5ac264f6d60794102173454e1cb75a atk-2.3.91.news 7faaddda8c2fb537ef90c4816d747ca4ec1085350ad3713c3cb904e93cfec463 atk-2.3.91.tar.xz -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
