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<refentry id="libatk-10-3">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">31 Aug 2004</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>Accessibility

Toolkit API</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="libatk-10-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose>

Accessibility Toolkit API</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libatk-10-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

ATK (Accessibility Tool Kit) is a set of interfaces which, when implemented by

applications and user-interface component libraries, supports the use of

applications by persons with disabilities. ATK provides a consistent set of

in-process interfaces which conforming components implement, either directly or

via the use of add-on libraries. These interfaces are in turn exported

out-of-process for use by assistive technologies (see

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>at-spi</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>).

</para>

<para>

Using ATK, applications can explicitly provide descriptive information about

their components. By using ATK-enabled toolkits such as GTK+, applications

obtain built-in accessibility support.

</para>

<para>

The ATK API is a queryable, interfaced API for obtaining textual,

attribute-based, and coordinate information from user interface components, and

also provides a means of activating and interacting with those components

without the direct use of the keyboard or system pointing device.

</para>

<para>

To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the

package.

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libatk-10-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>

The following files are used by this library:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename></term><listitem>

<para>

Accessibility Toolkit API shared library

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/atk</filename></term><listitem>

<para>

Location of developer documentation

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libatk-10-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>

See

<olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

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<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><para>Availability</para></entry>

<entry><para>library/desktop/atk</para></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Committed</para></entry></row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libatk-10-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>at-spi-registryd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>magnifier</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>at-spi</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libcspi</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgailutil</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgnome-mag</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgnomespeech</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libloginhelper</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libatk-10-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>

Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006.

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>