[BRLTTY] Linux console hacking (was: Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux)

[Jason J.G. White]

Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev at sange.fi> wrote:
>1. AT-SPI2 depends on D-Bus and is deeply integrated into the GNOME
>accessibility stack. This is reasonable in a full desktop environment, but not
>in lightweight scenarios (e.g. kmscon). Pulling in D-Bus and the GNOME
>accessibility infrastructure purely to reach a terminal emulator is overkill
>and most likely will not be an acceptable solution for kmscon or other
>non-GNOME terminal emulators.

This is true of at-spi, but not of the desktop accessibility 
architecture that Matt Campbell has been working on for Linux. It uses a 
Wayland protocol, eliminating the DBus dependency and its performance 
issues.

If that work continues, any solution for terminal emulators would need 
to be integrated with it, as the intention is ultimately to supersede 
at-spi.