Alex, Brett, Jamie, What do you recommend?
1) HRESULT IAccessible2_2::offsetInParentText (
[out] long* offset
);
Return the text offset in the immediate parent node.
2) Do not add this method.
3) Something else.
Pete
On 2/10/13 8:15 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>> It's a total hack. However, imo, this whole idea is a hack. :)
> It could be. IAccessibleHyperlink or IAccessibleText on text leafs are
> hacks and actually it is a thin ice for Firefox. This easily could
> face us to lot of work. Also these approaches aren't really subject of
> the spec and it should introduce even bigger difference in
> implementations between servers.
>
> On the another hand we have the method on internal layer in Firefox
> that Brett needs. The method is used to build
> IAccessibleText/Hypertext implementation from accessible tree. So if
> AT works both with accessible tree and IAccesisbleText/HyperText for
> text stuff then this method can be useful.
>
> Thank you.
> Alex.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM, James Teh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 11/02/2013 11:22 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>> Hi, Jamie. If text leafs implement IAccessibleHyperlink but previously
>>> IAccessibleHyperlink was implemented by embedded objects only then
>>> this might be something that AT relies on.
>> I guess this is a possibility, though I'd assume that ATs that don't need
>> text leaf nodes wouldn't traverse them. We'd certainly need ot check,
>> though.
>>
>>
>>> On the another hand parent
>>> IAccessibleHyperText would return a collection of children instead the
>>> collection of embedded objects and AT could have dependencies on it as
>>> well.
>> Ah. I was imagining that the parent IAccessibleHypertext wouldn't return the
>> text leaf nodes. See notes on hack below.
>>
>>
>>> pure IAccessibleHyperlink on text leafs
>>> is rather a hack than it suites them well.
>> It's a total hack. However, imo, this whole idea is a hack. :)
>>
>>
>> Jamie
>>
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