Re: [g-a-devel]Question about reading text "blobs"
- From: Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>
- To: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>
- Cc: Gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
- Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]Question about reading text "blobs"
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 00:51:12 -0600 (MDT)
Hey Malcolm,
Sounds like a cool app. If you need early testers... :)
Yes, I think if you allowed the cursor to move, but marked it as
uneditable, that'd work for now. Eventually, I think Gnopernicus should
have a way to read the text contained in a text widget even if it's
uneditable and doesn't have a cursor. It's not a question of the text
being unavailable to Gnoeprnicus, it's a matter of figuring out the UI
to let the user read the text using Gnopernicus.
But, just allowin the text widget to get focus and allowing a cursor
to be moved around it would be finee. And, if you didn't want this
behavior by default, you could even make this behavior dependent on the
/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf key. So if that key isn't
set, you don't display the cursor, and maybe don't allow the text widgets
to gain focus.
Marc
On 4 Jun 2003, Malcolm
Tredinnick wrote:
> Mark's recent posts about Gnopernicus and Balsa reminded me of something
> I have been meaning to get some advice about:
>
> I am writing an application which will need to be accessible (think of
> something like a talking book). Portions of the display of this
> application are chunks of text that I am currently dropping into a text
> widget which I have marked in Glade as not editable and "don't show
> cursor". Does this mean I am going to have to go to extra lengths to
> make sure that a screen reader will be able to see the contents? Or
> should I permit the cursor to be moved around the text and just not
> allow editing?
>
> I seem to have worked out that I need to leave the text widget as able
> to take the focus just so that a screen reader can get there in the
> first place. This seems necessary just so that any scrollbars can be
> manipulated via the keyboard.
>
> My accessibility setup on my computers is a bit suspicious at the
> moment; sometimes it works, sometimes things go pear-shaped. So it is a
> bit hard to tell if things are broken by design or broken by accident
> when I am testing some of this.
>
> Any advice appreciated,
> Malcolm
>
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