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AccessKit: A shared accessibility glue layer for the whole community
In non-web applications, accessibility has long been confined to only a handful of the largest, most well-resourced UI toolkits, leaving a large proportion of free software inaccessible to disabled people. AccessKit aims to solve this problem by providing an accessibility abstraction and glue layer that can be reused by many toolkits across programming languages. Our aim is to do for accessibility what libraries such as SDL have done for graphics, input, and windowing. This talk will cover what we've accomplished so far, what's next, and how the community can help.
Presented by: Matt Campbell
Matt is a visually impaired developer who has been working in accessibility for over 20 years. He spent most of that time so far working on proprietary software, but he is now the lead developer of AccessKit, a free accessibility glue layer for multiple platforms and programming languages.