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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by jcelerier on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:32PM (#28215551)
These APIs have existed for like three or more decades for desktop apps. That's partly why most desktop UI toolkits are based on tree of widgets: Mac and Windows's native accessibility APIs expect a tree
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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by mwcampbell on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @08:14PM (#28216295)
FWIW, the oldest accessibility API was Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), which was added to Windows 95 in a service pack in 1997. Classic MacOS never had an accessibility API; the Outspoken screen reader for that OS had to rely exclusively on ugly hacks (e.g. patching Toolbox functions). OS X introduced accessibility APIs for Carbon and Cocoa in an early version; not sure which one. Unix-based desktop environments got an accessibility API, AT-SPI (thank you Sun), in the early 2000s.
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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by jcelerier on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:29AM (#28218835)
well TIL, I believed accessibility to already be there by the late 80s, in NeXT workstations and the first windows versions but it looks like that was not the case.
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