>IA2 doesn't provide method to select single cell Alex, Would MSAA's accSelect work?
-Pete Alexander Surkov wrote: > So, Pete. I mean there is no GUI to select row as it defined by IA2 > (i.e. select this row and unselect others), but every row can be > selected by cells and unselected by cells. If AT needs shortcut for > this (note IA2 doesn't provide method to select single cell) then I > think it's worth to implement it. > > Conflict is if we will treat selectRow as the following. We should > select every cell in the row and unselect every cell in other rows. > Since one and the same cell can be shared between two different rows > then this is conflict. I mean what should we do? Should we select or > should we unselect that cell? (I think the formal case which is select > and then unselect it doesn't make sense.) IA2 should provide > documentation where meaning of the method can't be treated by > different ways. > > Alex. > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Pete Brunet<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Alex, If you can't select rows or columns from the GUI what do you think >> about just returning E_NOTIMPL for those methods? >> >> >>> Also I think nether method documentation nor implementation should be self >>> conflicting. >>> >> I agree, but did you have an example in mind where the documentation and >> implementation would conflict? >> >> Pete >> >> Alexander Surkov wrote: >> >> To Andres: Afaik HTML table is unique example of multiselectable table >> in Firefox where row or column spans are applicable and there is no >> GUI to select row or column of the HTML table. You can select cells >> (ctrl + click on the cell) one by one or cells all together (ctrl + >> click on the table border). So I don't know how I should implement >> selectRow/Column methods for Firefox's HTML tables. Also I think >> nether method documentation nor implementation should be self >> conflicting. >> >> Alex. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Pete Brunet<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> There is different (and probably buggy) behavior if you compare the >> behavior of multiple cell selection in Symphony and OOo, so the methods >> should report what happens in the GUI, even mimicking buggy behavior. -Pete >> >> >> Andres Gonzalez wrote: >> >> >> Alex: what about if these methods mimic what the user can do via the GUI >> when selecting a row or column. It would be app-dependent. >> >> Thanks, >> >> --Andres. >> >> >> --Andres. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Alexander Surkov >> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:22 PM >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] >> IAccessible::(un)selectRow/Column method implementation >> >> Though if we won't select not origin cell then selectRow/Column won't >> select row or column entirely in some cases and isRow/ColumnSelected >> will return false. I'm not sure how is it correct. Opinions? >> >> Alex. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Alexander >> Surkov<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi. IA2 doc doesn't address situation when row or column spans are >> presented in a table. So let we have an example, >> >> <table> >> <tr> >> <td>cell1</td> >> <td rowspan="1">cell2</td> >> </tr> >> <tr> >> <td>cell3</td> >> </tr> >> </table> >> >> visually this table is presented like >> >> |---------|---------| >> | cell1 | cell2 | >> |---------| | >> | cell3 | | >> |---------|---------| >> >> If I select second row then we should select "cell3". >> >> >> >> Should we select >> >> >> >> spanned "cell2" as well? On the one hand it looks reasonable because >> when I want to select row then I want to see all cells in the row >> selected. On another hand I would say no because we should unselect >> first row per documentation and therefore we should uselect "cell1" >> and "cell2", i.e. "cell2" remains unselected. So should we add words >> into documentation (un)selectRow/Column deals with origin cells only >> (i.e. cells those aren't result of row or column spans)? >> >> Alex. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 >> >> >> > > >
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