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To build a better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.
-- Alexander Pierce, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
ATK served us well for nearly 20 years, but the world has changed, and
GTK has changed with it. Now ATK is mostly a hindrance towards improving
the accessibility stack:
- it maps to a very specific implementation, AT-SPI, which is Linux and
Unix specific
- it requires implementing the same functionality in three different
layers of the stack: AT-SPI, ATK, and GTK
- only GTK uses it; every other Linux and Unix toolkit and application
talks to AT-SPI directly, including assistive technologies
Sadly, we cannot incrementally port GTK to a new accessibility stack;
since ATK insulates us entirely from the underlying implementation, we
cannot replace it piecemeal. Instead, we're going to remove everything
and then incrementally build on a clean slate:
- add an "accessible" interface, implemented by GTK objects directly,
which describe the accessible role and state changes for every UI
element
- add an "assistive technology context" to proxy a native accessibility
API, and assign it to every widget
- implement the AT context depending on the platform
For more information, see: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2833
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| images | ||
| actions.md | ||
| broadway.md | ||
| building.md | ||
| compiling.md | ||
| css-overview.md | ||
| css-properties.md | ||
| drawing-model.md | ||
| getting_started.md | ||
| gtk4-broadwayd.xml | ||
| gtk4-builder-tool.xml | ||
| gtk4-demo-application.xml | ||
| gtk4-demo.xml | ||
| gtk4-docs.xml | ||
| gtk4-encode-symbolic-svg.xml | ||
| gtk4-icon-browser.xml | ||
| gtk4-launch.xml | ||
| gtk4-overrides.txt | ||
| gtk4-query-settings.xml | ||
| gtk4-sections.txt | ||
| gtk4-update-icon-cache.xml | ||
| gtk4-widget-factory.xml | ||
| gtk4.types.in | ||
| gtk-markdown-to-docbook | ||
| input-handling.md | ||
| meson.build | ||
| migrating-2to4.md | ||
| migrating-3to4.md | ||
| osx.md | ||
| overview.xml | ||
| question_index.md | ||
| resources.md | ||
| running.md | ||
| section-list-widget.md | ||
| section-text-widget.md | ||
| section-tree-widget.md | ||
| version.xml.in | ||
| visual_index.xml | ||
| wayland.md | ||
| windows.md | ||
| x11.md | ||