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refentrytitle>libcspi.3</
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manvolnum>3</
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refmiscinfo class="date">31 Aug 2004</
refmiscinfo>
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refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</
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refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</
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refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</
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refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</
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indexterm><
primary>libcspi</
primary></
indexterm><
indexterm><
primary>AT-SPI
10139N/AC Bindings</
primary></
indexterm><
indexterm><
primary>at-spi</
primary></
indexterm>
10139N/A<
indexterm><
primary>Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface</
primary>
10139N/A<
refnamediv id="libcspi-3-name"><
refname>at-spi</
refname><
refname>libcspi</
refname><
refname>libspi</
refname><
refpurpose>Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface, and
10139N/AAT-SPI C Bindings</
refpurpose></
refnamediv>
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refsect1 id="libcspi-3-desc"><
title>&desc-tt;</
title>
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para><
filename>at-spi</
filename> is the Assistive Technology Service Provider
10139N/AInterface, which provides a set of client-side APIs for use by assistive technologies.
10139N/AAssistive Technologies are augmentative or adaptive technologies that make
10139N/Athe desktop user interface accessible to persons with disabilities.</
para>
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para>These APIs for assistive technology developers are available in two
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para><
filename>at-spi</
filename> is defined by CORBA IDL in the following
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para>An AT-SPI client can use any programming language for which general
10139N/ACORBA language bindings are available (for example, Java, C, C++) and may
10139N/Ause any CORBA 2.2-compliant ORB. The client bindings are generated from the
10139N/Aabove IDL by a language-specific IDL compiler which is usually bundled with
10139N/AORBs. The GNOME 2 environment includes an efficient ORB with C bindings (ORBit2).
10139N/A<
para><
filename>&cmd;</
filename> AT-SPI clients may also use the C language
10139N/Abindings that are defined in <
filename>&cmd;</
filename> and documented in
10139N/Athe developer documentation.</
para>
10139N/A<
para>To access the developer documentation, you must install the developer
10139N/A<
para>Such clients may also link to <
filename>&cmd;</
filename>, which provides
10139N/ACORBA server-side implementations of the Accessibility::EventLister interfaces
10139N/Awhich are used for AT-SPI event notification support.</
para>
11221N/A<
para>Python bindings are also provided in pyatspi. It Wraps the Gnome Assistive
11221N/ATechnology Service Provider Interface for use in Python.</
para>
10139N/A<
refsect1 id="libcspi-3-file"><
title>&file-tt;</
title>
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para>The following files are used by this application:</
para>
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variablelist termlength="wholeline">
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para>AT-SPI shared library</
para>
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varlistentry><
term><
filename>/
usr/
lib/&cmd;.so</
filename> </
term><
listitem>
10139N/A<
para>AT-SPI C Binding shared library</
para>
10139N/A<
para>Location of developer documentation</
para>
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refsect1 id="libcspi-3-attr"><
title>&attr-tt;</
title>
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para>See <
olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><
citerefentry>
10139N/A<
refentrytitle>attributes</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>5</
manvolnum></
citerefentry></
olink>
10139N/Afor descriptions of the following attributes:</
para>
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tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><
colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">
10139N/A<
colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">
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row><
entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</
entry><
entry align="center" 10139N/Avalign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</
entry></
row>
10139N/A<
row><
entry><
para>Availability</
para></
entry><
entry><
para>SUNWgnome-a11y-libs
10139N/A<
row><
entry colname="COLSPEC0"><
para>Interface stability</
para></
entry><
entry 10139N/Acolname="COLSPEC1"><
para>Committed</
para></
entry></
row>
10139N/Acolname="COLSPEC1"><
para>Volatile</
para></
entry></
row>
11221N/Acolname="COLSPEC1"><
para>Volatile</
para></
entry></
row>
10139N/A<
refsect1 id="libcspi-3-also"><
title>&also-tt;</
title>
10139N/A<!--Reference to another man page--> 10139N/A<!--Reference to a Help manual--> 11904N/A<
citerefentry><
refentrytitle>libatk-1.0</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>3</
manvolnum></
citerefentry>,
11904N/A<
citerefentry><
refentrytitle>attributes</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>5</
manvolnum></
citerefentry>,
11904N/A<
citerefentry><
refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</
refentrytitle><
manvolnum>5</
manvolnum></
citerefentry>
10139N/A<
refsect1 id="libcspi-3-note"><
title>¬e-tt;</
title>
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para>Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006.</
para>