Re: [g-a-devel] Status of IBM a11y

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Ariel Rios wrote:
> > I am not very familiar with the ATK/AT-SPI implementations but I am
> > aware that these implementations are not compatible with the KDE
> > architecture, and a general move to DBUS has been often mentioned.
> > The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative could be the opportunity to
> > implement ATK / AT-SPI over DBUS and finaly offer a general solution.
> >     
> Please be aware that moving into dbus might be a very hard task.
> Currently GNOME has a working a11y architecture while KDE has none. Do
> we want to move to an non existant architecture from one that works
> actually really well?
>
>   

That is the risk of moving things forward.

Maintaining functionality on top of an aging framework that everyone 
else is migrating away from (seeing this in a 5 year perspective, say) 
will also be hard. The difference is there is no real reward from that 
kind of effort.

Henrik