Re: Any documentation on AT-SPI

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Hi Felipe,

Cspi has been superseded by libatspii, but those libraries are intended 
for ATs that want to inspect other applications over AT-SPI, and they 
aren't what you need if you're trying to add accessibility to widgets. If 
you'd prefer not to use atk, then you should expose accessibility objects 
over d-bus directly.

The xml directory under at-spi2-core specifies the D-Bus interfaces 
(http://git.gnome.org/browse/at-spi2-core/), although it doesn't document 
them. The libatspi documentation should also be helpful, since libatspi 
calls correspond to D-Bus calls (except where properties are cached):
http://developer.gnome.org/libatspi/unstable/
And looking at libatspi in general might help, although it is intended for 
consumers.

Sorry--it's poorly documented right now (this is a good reminder that it's 
something that I need to work on), and I'm sure you'll have more 
questions, so feel free to ask.

-Mike

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know if there are any docs on how to use AT-SPI directly
> for implementing a framework? I am implementing accessibility for the
> Lazarus Component Library for Object Pascal and I would like to add
> support AT-SPI support, but I couldn't find any documentation yet.
> Wikipedia says that this is the home for AT-SPI:
>
> http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/At-spi
>
> But there there is only a dead link to
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/ and no documentation.
>
> Should I use the C API for it?
> http://developer.gnome.org/at-spi-cspi/1.32/spi-main.html ?
>
> Examples about how to use that would be good.
>
> thanks,
> --
> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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