Re: [g-a-devel] exposing characteristics of dates in a calendar

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

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-