Will, et al.:
If I had to bet money, I'd say it's not a bottom up vs top down
hierarchy issue.
Amongst the various and sundry tasks we are working on within WebKitGtk
a11y is "collapsing/flattening" the accessible hierarchy so that instead
of things like:
->Panel
->Paragraph
-> text (this is)
-> text (bold)
-> text (text)
We have:
-> Paragraph
whose accessible text contains the string 'this is bold text'.
This happens to be a major change which is still very much a work in
progress. Getting the events (and for that matter the states) all
straightened out is still taking place. When it's done -- and for that
matter, when the rest of the work necessary to make WebKitGtk accessible
is done -- it will be wonderful, because I think we will find many
things (including this Software Center) start to JustWork with a minimum
amount of scripting support needed on an app-by-app basis. And some
things might JustWork with no scripting support.
Unfortunately, WebKitGtk a11y work is not yet done. (I don't mean the
changes I refer to above. I mean period.)
Distros which choose to employ tools that rely upon it might be able to
hack around things which have not yet been implemented in WebKitGtk by
providing their own custom scripts for Orca, but they should keep in
mind that things are changing rapidly.
I hope this helps shed some light on things.
** Bug watch added: bugs.webkit.org/ #25531
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25531
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