On 2/4/13 9:03 PM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:

Pete,

Is there a plan to update AccProbe for the new interfaces?

Hi Rich, AccProbe should be updated but there is no resource to do it.


Alex: I am concerned about FF implementing this stuff in the middle of Candidate Recommendation phase. That would set everything back and there are already more bugs than I would like to see in FF 21 which need to be addressed.

It would be best if this were synched with ARIA 1.1.

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger


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          08:47:01 PM---On 2/4/13 8:16 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote: >
          Hi, Pete. Thank Pete Brunet ---02/04/2013 08:47:01 PM---On 2/4/13 8:16 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote: > Hi, Pete. Thank you for getting back on this. Answering

From: Pete Brunet <[email protected]>
To: Alexander Surkov <[email protected]>,
Cc: IA2 List <[email protected]>
Date: 02/04/2013 08:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] IA2 1.3 ready for review
Sent by: [email protected]






On 2/4/13 8:16 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
    Hi, Pete. Thank you for getting back on this. Answering inline.

      1) It makes sense to allow IAccessible2_2::attribute to take sequence
      of attribute names like "margin-left;margin-right;" to get these
      attribute values for a single call.

      Is this important enough to add additional development effort for server
      side implementers?

    Let's leave it out of IA2 1.3. Otherwise I afraid we never get it
    done. If the feature is needed by AT then it can be prototyped in the
    browser before we put it into spec since it doesn't require the
    interface changes.

      3) Any specific reason to use long for nTargets in
      relationTargetsOfType since it seems it never takes negative values?

      It's a good point, but since an unsigned long wasn't used anywhere else it
      seems like at least for the sake of consistency to leave it as is.

    I don't mind.

      6) IAccessibleHypertext2::hyperlinks. Just to make sure: we decided to
      go with array instead EnumVariant? Do AT want to get all items at once
      even if the document is big and has many links?

      Back on 14 Aug 2012 you agreed that the array would be preferred in order to
      keep it consistent with the array returned by
      IAccessible2_2::relationTargetsOfType.

    If I agreed then ok :) It seems our discussion is many years long. I
    can hardly remember where we started from. I think my point was that
    obtaining all hyperlinks can be slow. If it is an issue then we can
    address it the next round if necessary.

      8) IA2_RELATION_NODE_PARENT_OF "This object is a parent of a target
      object." It's not clear as well since it doesn't answer why
      get_accParent doesn't work. Maybe you should say it's a logical parent
      and the relation is reverse to RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF. It is used, for
      example, for flat structured trees.

      I could remove it.  Noone else showed interest in it other than for symmetry
      with IA2_RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF.  The comment about get_accParent is a good
      one.  You asked for this new relation back on 9 Nov 09 because you added it
      for ATK and wanted to enhance the symmetry between the ATK and IA2
      interfaces.  Or I could just add another sentence, "This relation is the
      reciprocal of IA2_RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF."  I didn't understand the comment
      about flat structured trees but if you want to keep this relation please
      provide an additional sentence.

    We shouldn't remove it. It's needed for sync with ATK. Also this
    constant was settled down in ARIA spec implementation guide already :)

    If you use "logical parent" instead "parent" (i.e. not a parent in the
    accessible tree) then it should be fine. It can sound "This object is
    a logical parent of a target object. This relation is the reciprocal
    of IA2_RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF."

    About flat trees. The accessible tree may look like:

    <div role="tree">
     <div role="treeitem" level="1">item</div>
     <div role="treeitem" level="2">sub item</div>
    </div>

    in this case parent for 'item' and 'subitem' is 'tree' but logical
    parent of 'subitem' is 'item'.
I updated the comments as follows.  Please review.

/** This object is a logical child of a target object.  This relation is the reciprocal
of the IA2_RELATION_NODE_PARENT_OF relation. In some cases an application's accessible
tree is such that an object can have a logical parent which is not its parent in the
tree of accessibles. */
const WCHAR *const IA2_RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF = L"nodeChildOf";

/** This object is a logical parent of a target object. This relation is the reciprocal
of the IA2_RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF relation. In some cases an application's accessible
tree is such that an object can have a logical parent which is not its parent in the
tree of accessibles. */
const WCHAR *const IA2_RELATION_NODE_PARENT_OF = L"nodeParentOf";


    Thank you.
    Alex.


    On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Pete Brunet
    <[email protected]> wrote:
      Hi Alex, I am going to try to get some momentum going on this again...


      On 9/23/12 11:52 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:

      Hi, Pete. Here's my two cents.

      1) It makes sense to allow IAccessible2_2::attribute to take sequence
      of attribute names like "margin-left;margin-right;" to get these
      attribute values for a single call.

      Is this important enough to add additional development effort for server
      side implementers?

      2) It'd be nice to add a reference to relation constants for
      relationTargetsOfType method description, see "[in] type The requested
      relation type."

      Done.

      3) Any specific reason to use long for nTargets in
      relationTargetsOfType since it seems it never takes negative values?

      It's a good point, but since an unsigned long wasn't used anywhere else it
      seems like at least for the sake of consistency to leave it as is.

      4) Should we keep IAccessibleDocument restricted to HTML documents?
      After all HTML sounds like an implementation detail. The idea it
      serves to is when the loaded document shouldn't be read from the
      beginning.

      I changed it to:
       /** @brief Returns the most recently used anchor target within a document.

        A document's most recently targeted in-page anchor is returned.  A
      typical use
         of this method is to fetch the anchor target within an HTML document.
      In this
         case anchor targets are those which has been defined with the <a> tag.

      5) "Document that copyText, cutText, and pasteText are deprecated."
      Can you please refresh me on it? The reason specified is "This
      function is available via the application's GUI." but it seems it can
      be applied to the whole IAccessibleEditableText interface.

      This was a long discussion involving several people back in June 2011 from
      the 7th to the 29th and this is what we ended up with.  It was determined
      that the three deprecated methods are clipboard operations and there are too
      many differences and ambiguities in how applications implement their
      clipboard functionality.  Also copy/cut/paste methods are not in use while
      the other ones are so we can't deprecate the entire interface.  We also
      talked about adding, if needed at some later date, five new actions for cut,
      copy, pasteDefault, pasteFormatted, pasteUnformatted.

      6) IAccessibleHypertext2::hyperlinks. Just to make sure: we decided to
      go with array instead EnumVariant? Do AT want to get all items at once
      even if the document is big and has many links?

      Back on 14 Aug 2012 you agreed that the array would be preferred in order to
      keep it consistent with the array returned by
      IAccessible2_2::relationTargetsOfType.

      7) IA2_RELATION_GROUPING_OBJECT_FOR: "This object is a grouping object
      for the target object." - it'd be nice to give a hint for
      implementers. After a time I don't really remember what is it about :)

      Actually this got into this draft of the spec by mistake.  We agreed it was
      not needed back on 1 March 12.  Ditto with
      IA2_RELATION_POPUP_INITIATOR_FOR.  I removed them both.

      8) IA2_RELATION_NODE_PARENT_OF "This object is a parent of a target
      object." It's not clear as well since it doesn't answer why
      get_accParent doesn't work. Maybe you should say it's a logical parent
      and the relation is reverse to RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF. It is used, for
      example, for flat structured trees.

      I could remove it.  Noone else showed interest in it other than for symmetry
      with IA2_RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF.  The comment about get_accParent is a good
      one.  You asked for this new relation back on 9 Nov 09 because you added it
      for ATK and wanted to enhance the symmetry between the ATK and IA2
      interfaces.  Or I could just add another sentence, "This relation is the
      reciprocal of IA2_RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF."  I didn't understand the comment
      about flat structured trees but if you want to keep this relation please
      provide an additional sentence.

      9)  Description for IA2_RELATION_POPUP_INITIATOR_FOR doesn't make
      things really clear for implementers too. Btw, the used string is
      "popInitiatorFor", I'm not sure if this is on demand, should it be
      "popupInitiatorFor" instead?

      Removed.  See #7.

      10) Both IAccessibleHypertext and IAccessibleText are marked as
      deprecated (see
      http://a11ysoft.com/ia2/docs/html/), however
      IAccessibleHypertext2 and IAccessibleText2 are inherited from them.
      What does deprecation mean here?

      Thanks for noticing that Alex.  Does anyone see any issues if I remove the
      inheritance?

      Thank you.
      Alex.


      On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Pete Brunet
      <[email protected]> wrote:

      I finished up the IA2 1.3 work over the weekend but due to some changes on
      the LF web site am unable to post it there.  I've provided it at
      a11ysoft.com.  Please review it.  I won't get to the object attributes until
      later (to add explicit-name).

      documentation:  
      http://a11ysoft.com/ia2/docs/html
      zip file:
      http://a11ysoft.com/ia2.zip

      The one bug I see so far is that I don't have a link for the IAccessible2
      interface on the main page.  That is at:
      http://www.a11ysoft.com/ia2/docs/html/interface_i_accessible2.html

      The zip file contains everything I'll eventually post on the LF site, among
      other things, changelog.txt and the merged IDL file, ia2_api_all.idl.

      Pete
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