Coming to grips with the state of a11y in gtk



Hey,

I've spent the last night poring through gail bugs and code, and came
to the conclusion that we need to face the tough reality that the
state of a11y in GTK+ is sadly declining. There were years old patches
in  bugzilla which fix pretty obvious bugs; on top of that, I've fixed
at least one bug that would lead to instant segfault in the file
chooser when a11y is turned on.

I think we need to start over on the gail implementations, essentially.

Now, we obviously can't do that by throwing away all we have now and
start from a blank slate. The only way this can work, imo, is to move
implementations from gail to gtk 1-by-1 and fixing them up in the
process. I wonder if we can come up with some plan for how to organize
that practically.

The current state of affairs cannot be useful for anybody. While I was
digging at this with accerciser last night, it would let me poke
things for a bit, but as soon as I look back at the code, accerciser
would lock up hard, sometimes freezing random other applications in
the process...


Matthias


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