[g-a-devel] ATK 2.16.0 released

[Alejandro Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

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

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.


News (compared with 2.14.0)
===========================

* 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



-- 
Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias