This directory contains the GAIL library. GAIL provides accessibility support for gtk+ and libgnomecanvas by implementing AtkObjects for widgets in gtk+ and libgnomecanvas. The GAIL library is a GTK+ module. For example, if the module is loaded in a program which calls gtk_widget_get_accessible() for a GtkEntry an instance of GailEntry is returned. This module is normally used with the atk-bridge GTK+ module from at-spi to allow an assistive technology, e.g a screenreader, to query or drive the program. For more information about GAIL and accessibility in GNOME, see: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap If you find any bugs in GAIL, please report them to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. GAIL bugs are part of the 'atk' product in Bugzilla. Dependencies ============ In order to get CVS gail installed on your system, you need to have the most recent CVS versions of gtk+ and libgnomecanvas installed as well. Note that gtk+ requires glib/pango/atk and libgnomecanvas also requires libart, pangoft2 and gnome-common. Building ======== To compile a CVS version of gail on your system, you will need to take several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these steps at once by running: cvsroot/gail# ./autogen.sh Basically this does the following for you: cvsroot/gail# aclocal; automake; autoconf The above commands create the "configure" script. Now you can run the configure script in cvsroot/gail to create all the Makefiles. Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool in your path. Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
