GNOME Accessibility for Developers

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Accessibility Developers:

I assume many of you are familiar with the "Gnome Accessibility for
Developers" document.  It can be viewed here:

  http://www.gnome.org/~calum/gad/

This document explains how to implement and AtkObject and how to write
in-process (ferret style) test programs (though I am sure this section
is far from complete).  The section "Making Custom Components
Accessibile" is currently only in the form of an outline.  The document
finishes with User Interface Guidelines for supporting accessibility. 

Since it was written before at-spi (and therefore at-poke) existed, there
is no information about out-of-process development and testing
techniques.  In fact, this document was written while libgail was still 
in development, if that gives any sense of its age.

Now that the GNOME community in general is much more involved with
accessibility, it is an excellent time to work on this document and
make it more up-to-date and useful.  I am looking for volunteers to
review the accuracy/usefulness of the information currently there, 
and also to provide new information.  

It would be especially useful to get the perspectives of people who
have been working to make various programs (Evolution, Mozilla, etc.)
accessible.  My hope is to capture various useful programming,
debugging, and testing techniquees in an updated version of this
document.  If you have any information to offer, then please let 
me know!

Thanks!

Brian