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Clone this repo into your Talon user directory\n2. Install the `libgirepository1.0-dev` and `gir1.2-atspi-2.0` packages\n    * (_These packages are the names in the Ubuntu repos, but may differ in your distro_)\n4. Run `make run` to start the atspi server.\n5. Say `color toggle` to add colored hats over a11y elements\n6. Say `color \u003cwatercolor_hint\u003e` with the Talon phonetic alphabet to click an element\n\n\u003e [!NOTE]\n\u003e You must have the atspi-server running via `make run` in order to say Watercolor commands\n\n## Caveats\n\n- Many applications don't implement atspi properly, some not at all\n  - Issues can include wrong state labels on elements, failure to implement clicking on elements, outputting the wrong events on document changes, or incorrectly caching elements\n- The Python bindings to libatspi are not designed to handle high throughput connections and can be slow. 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