Re: [orca-list] Progress on WebKitGtk + Epiphany for access to web content

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl> wrote:
> Do Chrome or SRWare Iron (Chromium without the Google spyware) use
> the Gtk stuff as well?

Yes, apparently, except for rendering the Web content, where it uses its own
approach which is completely unrelated to WebKit GTK.

Note that the architecture is unique: the rendering process is separate from
the browser, thus the accessibility information has to be transferred over an
inter-process communication mechanism.

For ATK/AT-SPI, the necessary support is being written, according to a
discussion on this list recently.

The above information is based on articles which I have read that describe the
Chromium architecture, which has valuable reliability and security advantages.
For example, if a rendering process dies, this does not cause the entire
application to crash, and various techniques are employed to isolate the
content rendering processes to provide extra security.