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Accessibility Toolkit
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In computing, Accessibility Toolkit (ATK) refers in particular to the GNOME ATK.

ATK is the toolkit created by the GNOME Project to enable accessibility for users needing extra support to make the most of their computers. ATK defines interfaces that exposes accessible representations of the toolkit’s graphic objects on the side of the applications. This representation is an almost a 1:1 match with the objects and interfaces defined by AT-SPI. The main difference between both representations is that ATK is process-bounded so the parent/children relationships in the ATK hierarchy are modelled by actual references (pointers) between objects living in the same process.

GAIL (GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library) is the implementation of the accessibility interfaces defined by ATK for GTK+, the widget library of GNOME. Initially, GAIL was an independent module mapped to GTK+ but since GNOME 3.2, GAIL has been merged into GTK+.

The development of ATK has been led by the Accessibility Program Office (APO) of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (now Oracle) with contributions from many community members. When Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 they cut developer jobs of full-time developers working on GNOME accessibility components like the Accessibility Toolkit ATK and the Orca screen reader. Since then, ATK is mainly running by volunteers, lead by Alejandro Piñeiro.

Apart from GTK+, other graphical toolkits has implemented ATK in order to be accessible like Java Swing and SWT, OpenOffice /LibreOffice , Mozilla’s Gecko , Clutter and WebKitGTK+.

Peer Review is inappropriate at this stage, where the article scarcely exists. I suggest you remove this information to the talkpage and get a discussion going there. I am closing the review Brianboulton (talk) 23:33, 24 February 2013 (UTC)