Sure. A web browser. Single and multi line were originally designed for text fields and text areas. Single and multi line should only be used for content that is only text and has defined line breaks. If neither of these properties are provided you will have document with embedded text, etc.
... I mean you could call a browser multi line text area but it really is
not. It is a compound document.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group
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Hi, Rich.
You said:
> In documents it may mean neither single or multi-line.
Can you give an example of a document that is neither single-line nor
multi-line?
You also said:
> This really that trivial for documents.
Did you mean "This really isn't that trivial for documents." ?
Thanks!
Car
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Single line means that it is a single line *text field*. Will there be a
problem in office applications where editable text is applied? ... is it
really a single or multi-line as it is a document? In other words, is there
an issue if we assume single line? In documents it may mean neither single
or multi-line.
If we delete it we will also have a conflict with ATK and Java which have
single and multi-line:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/atk/unstable/atk-AtkState.html#AtkStateType
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/accessibility/AccessibleState.html
It is been a long time but the purpose for single line and multiple line
was to help ATs with Braille devices to know whether to break up the text,
by line , for a text field. Obviously, a text field that is single line is
rather easy to deal with. When You use mult-line you know to break up each
line of text by rows. This really that trivial for documents.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
CTO Accessibility Software Group
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Isn't role pretty much always the first thing an AT asks any accessible
object?
Carolyn
Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Deprecation of IA2_STATE_SINGLE_LINE
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The only concern I have is that Firefox has exposed it for a while;
although that doesn't necessarily stop deprecation. Also I think
Alexander's point is valid here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00185.html
Is it perhaps easier for AT to just check the state bit, rather than the
role as well?
cheers,
David
On 09/04/10 2:33 PM, Carolyn MacLeod wrote:
Going once, going twice.... ?
I need to decide whether or not to delete the single-line state bit from
the Eclipse API before April 30.
Carolyn
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The following is (slightly edited) from Carolyn, who is implementing IA2
in Eclipse...
Back in the fall, Andres asked why IA2 provides both IA2_STATE_MULTI_LINE
and IA2_STATE_SINGLE_LINE state bits.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00173.html
They would seem to be mutually exclusive, and having both takes up a
precious bit in the 32-bit strip.
Is there ever a case where an object can be neither single-line nor
multi-line?
Is there ever a case where an object can be both single-line and
multi-line?
In the conversation on the ia2 list, Jamie said that he had never even
noticed the single-line bit.
This is a possible source of error, for example if an application only
notices and sets/clears the "single" bit, but the AT only looks at the
"multi" bit.
The list discussion kind of ended with "oh well, whatever".
I propose deprecating IA2_STATE_SINGLE_LINE. Any objections?
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