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LIghtning Talk: 'tokio' and 'atspi'

Lightningat TokioConf 2026 · 2026-04-20..04-22· [accessibility, rust]
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Claims that async runtimes including Tokio and other async executors fail to prevent stale data and ordering races when talking to AT-SPI over D‑Bus (using the c‑bus crate). Measured P99 latency on a Raspberry Pi is over 10 seconds. A new screen reader (Odelia) hits these limits because every node read forces a full IPC round trip, so a redesigned assistive‑technology API and different synchronization primitives are being built.

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