It has been requested that a means be provided to get the current line number of a text control (i.e. the line number that the caret is currently on). IA2 has a way to get the contents of the current line, but not the line number.
Apparently Firefox returns a "line-number" field in the object attributes for a text control. I found the FF IA2 spec at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Accessibility/AT-APIs/IA2/Attrs which just points you to the Gecko spec at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Accessibility/AT-APIs/Gecko/Attrs The IA2 object spec, which is a work in progress, is at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/IAccessible2/ObjectAttributes What are your thoughts on adding line-number to the spec? By the way, the IA2 object attribute spec was started when Symphony was done but FF IA2 support was still not complete. So a larger question is if we should harmonize the current IA2 and FF object attribute specs, hopefully borrowing from other mature specs like CSS2 (or maybe even CSS3). Or should we eliminate the IA2 object attribute spec and instead have each app document its own object attributes. The former would be better but perhaps not practical. I'd like to know what the list thinks. Thanks, Pete -- *Pete Brunet* a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development (512) 238-6967 (work), (512) 689-4155 (cell) Skype: pete.brunet IM: ptbrunet (AOL, Google), [email protected] (MSN) http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/ Ionosphere: WS4G
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