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per tweeter chat with API and Jasson. A summary is AT-SPI is client API, ATK is server API; browsers are servers and implement ATK so the spec should operate with ATK.
https://github.com/w3c/html-api-map/commit/aac5872319e01f8ea47c152773328f3ce2c28f56