Editing Computer accessibility (section)

=== Accessibility application programming interfaces ===
Software [[API]]s (application programming interfaces) exist to allow assistive technology products such as [[screen reader]]s and [[Screen magnifier|screen magnifiers]] to work with mainstream software. The current or past APIs include:
* Java Accessibility and the [[Java Access Bridge]] for [[Java (programming language)|Java]] software<ref>Oracle: [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/access/index.html Java Accessibility]</ref><ref>Oracle: [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-jsp-136191.html Java SE Desktop Accessibility] (page containing a link to the Java Access Bridge).</ref> (being standardized as ISO/IEC TR 13066-6<ref>ISO: [http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?ics1=35&ics2=180&ics3=&csnumber=54004 ISO/IEC PRF TR 13066-6: Information technology -- Interoperability with Assistive Technology (AT) -- Part 6: Java accessibility application programming interface (API)].</ref>);
* [[Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface]] (AT-SPI) on [[UNIX]] and [[Linux]] (being standardized as ISO/IEC PDTR 13066-4<ref>ISO: [http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?ics1=35&ics2=180&ics3=&csnumber=54001 ISO/IEC PDTR 13066-4: Information Technology - Interoperability with Assistive Technology (AT) -- Part 4: Linux/UNIX graphical environments accessibility API].</ref>);
* [[Microsoft Active Accessibility]] (MSAA) on [[Microsoft Windows]];
* [[IAccessible2]] on [[Microsoft Windows]], a competitor of Microsoft UI Automation also replacing MSAA by [[Free Standards Group]] (standardized as ISO/IEC 13066-3:2012<ref>ISO: [http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=53998 ISO/IEC TR 13066-3:2012: Information technology -- Interoperability with assistive technology (AT) -- Part 3: IAccessible2 accessibility application programming interface (API)].</ref>);
* [[Mac OS X]] Accessibility;
* [[Microsoft UI Automation]] on Microsoft Windows, replacing MSAA.

Some of these APIs are being standardized in the [[ISO/IEC JTC 1|ISO/IEC]] 13066 series of standards.<ref>Richard Hodgkinson: [http://www.snapi.org.uk/info/standards/report_7.htm 7th Report on International ICT Accessibility Standards Proposed, Being Developed and Recently Published] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617172710/http://www.snapi.org.uk/info/standards/report_7.htm |date=2013-06-17 }}. 3 October 2008.</ref><ref>Richard Hodgkinson: [http://www.tiresias.org/research/standards/report_10.htm 10th Report on International ICT Accessibility Standards Proposed, Being Developed and Recently Published] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318050500/http://www.tiresias.org/research/standards/report_10.htm |date=2013-03-18 }}. 26 June 2009.</ref>