Re: Accessible Labels

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Billy Biggs wrote:
> Russell Shaw (rjshaw netspace net au):
>
> > Billy Biggs wrote:
> >
> > > I'm working on an application which sometimes uses non-editable
> > > GtkTextView widgets in place of GtkLabel to better accomodate screen
> > > readers.  Unfortunately, this breaks on themes with a background
> > > pixmap, as you end up with "labels" that have a flat colour
> > > background.
> > ...
> >
> > > On themes with a background pixmap, there is a (usually gray) box
> > > below the entry.  Another disadvantage of this technique is that the
> > > entry can get keyboard focus, which sometimes seems strange.
> >
> > Maybe you could pack a GtkStatusbar to the bottom of the dialog.
>
>   Do status bars have special status in screen readers?  If so it might
> have the correct behaviour, but I would be worried about putting a
> status bar in the middle of the widget, and I do not think that it makes
> sense visually in a dialog to have a status bar below the OK/Cancel
> buttons.

I don't know about screen-readers, but i'd think using a status bar
would be more in line with user interface conventions, and a status
bar on that dialog box wouldn't be far away from where you had the
label text anyway. If the GtkLabel drives the screen-reader, then
you could make the label invisible and put the same text on the
status bar (a bit hackish;).

Another way is to use pango to directly draw text on the dialog
widgets background, which hopefully shouldn't add any background
of its own.