GTK: Evolving accessibility
Our last post on accessiblity in GTK4 was a while ago, time for an update.
Thankfully, we have Lukáš Tyrychtr at Red Hat working on accessibility now.
One of the bigger changes in accessibility from GTK3 to GTK4 was that we have a new application API that is modeled on the ARIA specs from the web.
The high-level picture to keep in mind is...
AT stands for accessibility technology here. In practice, that mainly means orca, the well-known screen reader (although there is a new contender, with the odilia project).
The new layer provides APIs such as...