Isn't Description potentially internationalised as well, so adding problems?
-- Steve Lee Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility fullmeasure.co.uk 2008/12/8 Peter Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mike, > > Description is designed for human-reading, not for something like a > state/status indication. We have things like Focused, Selected, etc. in > AccessibleState. You can imagine a screen reader script wanting to pick out > this info - it would have to parse descriptions for that - the kind of > ugliness that was stuffed into MSAA because there weren't other richer ways > of conveying needed info. > > Regards, > > Peter Korn > Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer, > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > >> Brad just reminded me that atk objects have a "description", so that could >> be a good way to expose a date being today, although, from a brief look at >> the code, it seems that Orca currently only reads an object's description in >> certain cases. >> >> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Mike Gorse wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> We're trying to a11y-enable the SWF MonthCalendar control in Mono. It >>> represents "today" by placing a big red circle around the number, and we're >>> trying to figure out how to expose that in atk. I was thinking of adding an >>> attribute, to be returned either by getAttributes or getRunAttributes, for >>> the object representing today, although I don't know if there is a standard >>> attribute that we could use for it. I can't think of a better way to handle >>> it, though. A date can also be bold, so we'll need to add a text attribute >>> to handle that case. >>> >>> Does anyone have any input? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Mike G- >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
