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Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface

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Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI) is a toolkit-neutral way of providing accessibility facilities in applications, developed by the GNOME project. Toolkits provide a logical representation of the content of the application, and helpful assistants like screen readers or magnifiers can then allow disabled persons to browse and interact with the applications.

AT-SPI can also be used for automated testing of user interfaces, with tools such as Linux Desktop Testing Project and Dogtail.

It is currently supported by GTK+ 2, Java/Swing, the Mozilla suite, and StarOffice/OpenOffice.org. Trolltech also announced some support by Qt (KDE's toolkit library).

The Free Standards Group is considering AT-SPI for adoption as a Linux standard.[1]

References

  1. ^ Free Standards Group, Statement On Desktop Accessibility Development (2005-09-25). Accessed 2007-02-06.
 

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