Re: [g-a-devel]Re: Removing gtkhtml2 view

[Peter Korn <peter korn sun com>]

Hi Michael, Radek, 

There is a lot of great working happening in making HTML views accessible -
gtkhtml1, gtkhtml2, and Mozilla.  It would be less than great, however, if
the accessibility structures presented by these views differed significantly.

I've cc-ed Jay Yan, who is the lead engineer of the team implementing the
GNOME Accessibility framework on mozilla.  I think it would be a very good
idea to get the key engineers working on accessibilty for gtkhtml1, gtkhtml2,
and mozilla together to see if they can settle on a common structure (or set
of structures) for representing the rendered information accessibly.

If possible, I think we should also involve folks from BAUM, to get their
perspectives on how they will interact with this form Gnopernicus.


Thoughts?


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Calum,
> 
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 17:56, Calum Benson wrote:
> > Unfortunately there's no such thing as an accessible html browser for
> > now, except those that are based on gtkhtml2.
> 
>     I understand that Radek is working to make gtkhtml1 accessible - it
> would be really great if you could make sure you're happy with the
> direction things are going in gtkhtml1, it seems to me that Radek is
> taking a rather more powerful approach to the HTML, and de-composing the
> table / document structure into an accessible tree, which might give it
> a somewhat higher level of useable accessibility than gtkhtml2.
> 
>     It'd be great to have some feedback as to whether this is in fact the
> best way to go, or whether a rather more mindless approach might be
> better. Clearly the HTML and link interfaces will need implementing.
> Either way, at-poke shows gtkhtml1 to be getting there quite nicely in
> fact.
> 
>         Regards,
> 
>                 Michael.
> 
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