Re: [orca-list] accessiblity in chrome

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
 
> Good new: At this moment some people are implementing the
> accessibility support on WebKit in ATK terms for that, as GNOME has
> decided to start to use it. In brief, the ATK support works as as
> wrapper/proxy of the in-WebKit a11y support.
>
> Bad new: At this moment, ATK support is only available if you are
> using the GTK+ port. So saying that WebKit supports ATK is not 100%
> true, it is WebKitGtk+ the one which supports it.

However, the chromium-browser package (at least under Debian) has GTK+ as a
dependency, so there's a strong possibility that they are using the GTK+ port
of WebKit.

Google are going to need some sort of accessibility support for Chromium under
Linux, since their Chrome OS is effectively a (rather minimal but workable)
Linux distribution.