Re: Yelp and a11y

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:01 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> In the 2.9 series, Yelp is using Gecko as its rendering engine.  It
> seems that the accessibility isn't quite up to par.  On my machine, at-
> poke is able to see the text of the page, but it doesn't seem to show
> the links as anything special.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157941
> 
> This is a major problem.  If it can't be fixed soon, then I'll have to
> punt another release cycle with Yelp.  It's too late in the game to put
> gtkhtml2 back onto HEAD and hook all the code paths up.

Hi,

so we now have probably a clearer picture, still it's going to be a
difficult call...

The problems we know about are:

1 Hyperlinks not showed in at-spy

That actually seem to be a non issue. Quoting Louie Zhao (mozilla sun
accessibility guy):
"In Gnome, Hyperlinks are normally included in HyperText and has 
no standalone accessible object presented in accessible tree of at-poke.
I am not sure whether this is the answer for your question. Feel free to
contact me if you have any question."

2 Hyperlinks not showed in gok UI Grab

The patch is now in mozilla 1.8, but the final release is scheduled for
March which is too late for GNOME 2.10

3 There are apparently more patches in Sun branch that will not be
upstream in time for GNOME 2.10. I dont know what concrete problems they
cause though. See:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157941#c10

So, basically, if we want no accessibility regression with unpatched
mozilla in 2.10 we will very likely have to use gtkhtml. (Note that I
dont have a strong opinion here... just trying to provide infos).

Marco