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GNOME Accesibility Hackfest (interview)

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http://news.opensuse.org – A few weeks ago in A Coruña, Spain a Hackfest around GNOME Accesibility took place hosted by Igalia . openSUSE found the opportunity to make some questions to the people involved and then learn a bit more about this interesting Project. Our interviewers were Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, Joanmarie Diggs and Juanjo Marín.   1 – What is ATK and AT-SPI in simple words? AT-SPI is the acronym for Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface. Its main purpose is to provide a means for an assistive technology to interact with an application. For instance, the Orca screen reader wants (Distributions)

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