Re: Dynamically loading AT and ATK+ [was Re: Comments on GTK+ patches from Atk tarball]

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> The requirement is for accessibility support to be dynamically
> loadable on a running application; for instance I am running a program
> and have a problem, I call my co-worker Ed to offer an opinion.  If Ed
> is blind, he will need a screenreader in order to see what my app is
> doing, but of course I have been running the app without a
> screenreader.
> 
> A screenreader can be cranked up and connect with a running "SPI", no
> problem.  But unless I have been running my app with the runtime
> accessibility library loaded, any programmatic accessibility
> properties that the app may have provided will have just gone into the
> bit bucket, and I will only have the "default" accessibility
> properties if I dynamically load the accessibility module.  Of course
> one answer is that if I am in an office where AT may ever be needed, I
> always load the runtime library... but how friendly is that?  It would

Not too friendly, but I believe it is the right approach. It seems much
easier without this feature.

> 1) Start app without libagtk
> 2) App sets an accessibility property, such as an icon label. 
> Skeletal implementation of ATK in libatk stores this property, but
> does not load libagtk or compute any other ATK properties.

-> memory overhead even for users not needing accessibility.

								Pavel
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