GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 649556
Need to start to check how eventual Wayland move would affect ATK/AT-SPI2
Last modified: 2021-05-20 06:51:21 UTC
Current accessibility stack is based on a X11 world. But a new actor has appeared recently, Wayland, and the linux stack would move to that eventually, as this mail summarizes: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2010-November/msg00055.html And for example, clutter has already an experimental Wayland backend. It's true that this move will not be soon, but it would be a good idea to check how this affects ATK and AT-SPI2. In general ATK is agnostic to the window system, so this move would just affect some details of the implementation, like some AtkComponent method implementation (see [1]), or the a11y bus discovery (see [2]). *But* some parts of the API are also tied to the window system (ie: key event definition), so it would be good to review how Wayland does that kind of things, to check if they are compatible, and how abstract that. [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2010-November/msg00047.html [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2010-November/msg00051.html
ATK Hackfest Conclusions: * This is important. * We need to track it. * No one in the room has the needed experience to discuss it/make decisions.
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> * No one in the room has the needed experience to discuss it/make decisions. OK, so which experience was missing, precisely?
(In reply to comment #3) > > * No one in the room has the needed experience to discuss it/make decisions. > > OK, so which experience was missing, precisely? Experience with Wayland. In short what happened if that we had plenty of tasks and discussions to make with respect to the accessibility stack, and taking into account that we didn't have anyone at the room with Wayland experience we decided to skip the item.
FWIW, GNOME is starting to coordinate the global effort: https://live.gnome.org/Wayland And I have updated the accessibility section: https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/Gaps#Accessibility
Assuming this is obsolete in 2021. (If not then please file dedicated issues in GNOME GitLab - thanks!)