Re: [orca-list] Orca and D-Bus

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Isaac Porat <isaac porat me uk> wrote:
> What is not clear to me is if this affect individual applications or it only
> affect the nuts and bolts within gnome 2.30 itself?

As I understand it, this change only affects the accessibility infrastructure
(ATK and AT-SPI). Since applications and UI libraries use the ATK API, these
should not be affected.

An exception to this is Java, which used to rely on Corba directly to exchange
messages with AT-SPI instead of calling ATK. To overcome the dependence on
Corba, a new Java ATK wrapper has been written, which is available from a Git
repository. Note that this does not affect Java applications, which continue
to use the Java accessibility API; it only alters the way in which Java itself
interacts with assistive technologies under the Gnome desktop.

As to the Orca side, I'll leave it to others better informed than I am to
comment on the changes that were needed to work with the new AT-SPI for DBus
which is currently under development.