For the 1.3 release, let me know if anyone is opposed to creating IATable3 with summary and caption changed to return a VARIANT instead of an IUnknown.
On 8/22/2011 9:48 AM, Brett Lewis wrote: > Hi, > What prompted this thread for me is my trying to obtain caption and > summary via the IAccessibleTable interface. > By convention using name and description is fine but doesn't really seem > to correctly implement IAccessibleTable and is only somewhat intuitive. > I like the idea of having the get_summary and get_Caption return a > variant with either the text or the IAccessible. > Brett > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Surkov [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:58 PM > To: James Teh > Cc: IAccessible2 mailing list; Brett Lewis > Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] HTML table summary mapping to IA2 > > Hi, Jamie. It appears AT want to get summary and caption (not a name or > description since they can be different). > > Brett, do you have scenarios to share? > > Thank you. > Alex. > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:42 PM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> Why are accName/accDescription insufficient? >> >> Thanks, >> Jamie >> >> On 9/08/2011 1:36 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> IATable2 provides caption and summary properties that return >>> accessible objects. HTML table summary is provided by @summary >>> attribute so there's no accessible object that's created from DOM >>> element. This can be workarounded by artificial accessible object >>> creation that is attached or not attached to the tree but this >>> complicates implementation and I would try to avoid it. Can we extend >>> the IAccessibleTable2 by summaryText and captionText attributes or >>> introduce summary and caption object attributes on table accessible >>> if interface change is not desired for this? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> Alexander. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Accessibility-ia2 mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 >> -- >> James Teh >> Vice President, Developer >> NV Access Inc, ABN 61773362390 >> Email: [email protected] >> Web site: http://www.nvaccess.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
