Hi, Pete. I don't know why are relations or name/description not enough since caption and summary are exposed via them too. I bet AT knows better :)
Variant should fit perfect. Thank you. Alex. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Pete Brunet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, Why are relations sufficient? A relation is a connection to > another accessible but you said you don't want to fabricate another > accessible. > > We probably should have had caption and summary return a variant so either > an accessible or a BSTR could be returned. Would that have solved the > problem? > > Pete > -- > Pete Brunet > > a11ysoft - Accessibility Architecture and Development > (512) 467-4706 (work), (512) 689-4155 (cell) > Skype: pete.brunet > IM: ptbrunet (AOL, Google), [email protected] (MSN) > http://www.a11ysoft.com/about/ > Ionosphere: WS4G > > On 8/9/2011 8:47 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote: > > Hi, Benjamin. > > I believe Jamie meant proposed summaryText and captionText when asked > about accName/accDescription. > > More general question can be asked, i.e. why we need to have interface > to expose caption and summary and it can be worded as "why are > labelled_by/for and described_by/for relations insufficient". > > Thank you. > Alex. > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:42 AM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why are accName/accDescription insufficient? > > The content model of HTML <caption> is "flow" (with no descendant > table elements): > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tabular-data.html#the-caption-element > > That means it a wide variety of structured markup, including headings, > changes of language marked up with @lang, and links and form controls. > A practical use of this complex content model might be to include > controls for modifying the display of the table or linking to sources > for the table's data. > > accName is a string, so any complex content is flattened into text: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/accessibility.iaccessible.accname.aspx > > By contrast, the caption property returns an IAccessible or > IAccessible2 object that could have children represents the structure > of the caption. > > -- > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Accessibility-ia2 mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2
