Thanks Jamie,
On 8/6/12 6:21 PM, James Teh wrote:
> On 7/08/2012 1:49 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
>> If we choose an object attribute would it be acceptable to document it
>> in the Gecko spec instead of the IA2 object attribute spec? Rather than
>> documenting all the Gecko object attributes twice I am considering
>> adding a reference to
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Accessibility/AT-APIs/Gecko/Attrs
>>
>> from
>> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/accessibility/iaccessible2/objectattributes
>>
> My concern is that not documenting it in the IA2 spec makes it look
> non-standard or Gecko specific, which might make others wary of using it.
Alex or Jamie, Which of the object attributes defined in the Gecko spec
would be considered generic?
>
>> For an object attribute which name would you prefer: is-name-preferred
>> or is-name-preferred-over-text?
> The former is shorter, but probably not very clear, so probably the
> latter.
>
> Sorry to be painful, but in discussion with Mick the other day, we
> were starting to wonder whether explicit-name is a better name for
> this after all. With is-name-preferred, there is the question of
> "preferred by what?" In contrast, explicit-name doesn't suggest any
> preference; it just suggests that the author explicitly defined the
> name as opposed to it being derived from something else.
I'm OK with that.
>
>> If we choose to use a method, is there a preference for isNamePreferred
>> or isNamePreferredOverText?
> The former makes sense if it's being added to IAccessible2. The latter
> makes sense if it's being added to IAccessibleText.
>
> Jamie
>
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