Re: [g-a-devel] Name and Text of Accessible

[Bill Haneman <gnome billhaneman ie>]

Marcin Lyko wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm implemanting ATK for some new Gtk objects and I wonder if name of
> Accessible objects for some Gtk objects, which contain some text, should
> always contain the same text as Text object of the Accessible object and
> vice versa. 
No; in general the purpose of the accessible 'name' property is not the 
same as the onscreen text.  Sometimes/often it is, but just as 
frequently it is not.  For instance, a text entry field might be called 
"username entry" but  AtkText interface would return the actual onscreen 
text (which might be empty).  AtkText should report exactly what is 
currently rendered as glyphs to the screen, whereas accessible-name is 
just a human-readable string appropriate to present to the end user as a 
"name" for the GUI control.

Note also that there is an accessible "description" property, which by 
default is the same as the tooltip text (if present).

Bill
> Can somebody tell me what it depends on and when Text object
> should differ from the name of the Accessible object?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> BR,
> Marcin
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