How to know if a11y is activated

[Nelson Benítez León <nbenitezl gmail com>]

Hi,
back in 2008, nautilus implemented an enhanced keyboard
navigation,only activated when a11y was off, because this new
navigation would confuse visually impared people, details in
http://bugs.gnome.org/526802 . Now in gnome3 the condition that
checked if a11y was 'off' or 'on' is always returning 'on' so the
enhanced keyboard navigation is lost. The condition is the following:

a11y_is_off = ATK_IS_NO_OP_OBJECT (gtk_widget_get_accessible
(GTK_WIDGET (nautilus_container)))

so, is this the right way to check if accesibility is activated on a widget?

if that is true, does that mean that a11y is activated by default on
gnome 3? or is this distro-dependent?.. I'm in fedora 16 right now..


Sorry if my questions are obvious I dont know much about a11y I just
want to fix the nautilus regression[1]..

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660881

Thank you!