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[Making GNOME Accessible]

What the API can't do:

  • address basic application usability problems
  • fix broken keyboard navigation (easily)
  • expose information that the application fails to provide at all
  • work in the absence of  some kind of AT

However, the API does:

  • provide a consistent point of entry
  • provide something to log accessibility bugs against
  • simplify AT implementation and development
  • reduce need for scripting/special casing in AT
  • make it easy for applications to improve their accessibility
  • provide the basis for a Unix / GNU/Linux "standard"
  • eliminate need for ATs to patch for different OS and application versions.