Re: Draft release announcement

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:

> > From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
> > Date: Fri,  8 Mar 2002 12:34:02 -0500 (EST)
> > 
> > rsteinke w-link net writes:
> > 
> > > From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet ACT-Europe FR>
> > > >
> > > > >  - The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility.
> > > > >    By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can
> > > > >    be used such as tools such as screen readers, magnifiers,
> > > >
> > > >      The sentence above is not correct, but I couldn't guess what the
> > > >      correct sentence would be.
> > >
> > > Maybe "be used by such tools as screen readers, ..."?
> > 
> > I went with 'with such tools as...'
> > 
> > Regards,
> >                                         Owen
> 
> If it's not too late, could we add the words "built in ", as in
> 
> "The ATK library provides a set of built-in interfaces for
> accessibility."

"built-in" doesn't really mean much to me here. Whether they are
built-in or not depends on the system using ATK, right?
 
> Or more accurately, we could mention that 
> 
> "the GAIL library, available with GNOME 2 or as a separate download, 
> provides an implementation of those interfaces for the GTK+ widget set."
 
I think the ATK specific announcement would be a good place to mention
GAIL. What I've appended is what Padraig sent me as a draft of an
announcement, with some formatting changes and with a mention of 
GAIL added.

Regards,
                                        Owen

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ATK-1.0.0 is now available for download from:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/

This is the first stable release of ATK.

The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility.  By
supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used
such as tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative
input devices.

Atk provides a core set of interfaces which are common to all widgets
and "additional" interfaces that are appropriate to certain classes of
widgets and whose existence can be queried at run time.  It also
provides interfaces which an application can use to provide additional
accessibility information to assistive technology tools.

The GAIL package, available from:
 
 http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/gail/

provides an implementation of the ATK interfaces for the GTK+
user interface toolkit.

More information about ATK is available from:

 http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/


The following people contributed to the development of ATK:

Darin Adler, Jacob Berkman, Hans Breuer, Padraig O'Briain, 
Lucy Brophy, Brian Cameron Bill Haneman, Jens Finke, Tim Janik, 
Tor Lillqvist, Michael Meeks, Louise Miller, Marc Mulcahy, 
Havoc Pennington, Owen Taylor, Sebastian Wilhelmi, Peter Williams