Re: [g-a-devel]Accessibility for GnomeCharmap

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

Hi,

I would regard the gnome status bar (GnomeAppBar) as either accessible or easy 
to make accessible. In general, if not in this application, there will probably 
be a requirement for GnomeAppBar to be accessible. The GnomeAppBar has a child 
(GtkFrame) which has a child which is a GtkLabel. The text of the GrkLabel is 
the text which is displayed in the status bar.

One might consider implementing accessibility for GnomeAppBar in a similar way 
as for GtkStatus, i.e. set role to ATK_ROLE_STATUSBAR, report no children and 
its name as the text on the label; when the text on the label changes report a 
change in accessible-name.

As you suggest, you could specify the text which appears in the status bar for a 
button as the tooltip for the button. This will increase the size of the 
application as a tooltip must be stored for each button.

Padraig

> 
> Hi,
> 
> The status bar used in gcharmap is the gnome status bar and not GtkStatusbar
> and hence it is not
> accessible  as of now. As the mouse moves on the character buttons, the
> character as well as the
> character code appears on the status bar. Presently, the character buttons do
> not have any tooltips.
> So, instead of just giving the characters as the tooltip to the character
> buttons I thought that I could give
> the information(which includes the character code) that appears on the status
> bar as a tooltip to the character buttons.
> 
> Would like to know your opinion regarding this.
> 
> Thanks and regards
> Muktha
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> 
> > Hi Muktha,
> >
> > Why is the status bar not accessible?  Otherwise, your proposal sounds good.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > At 05:13 PM 2/15/2002 +0530, muktha wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >      I'm trying to provide accessibility for gnome charactermap.
> > >      Here is the widget hierarchy :
> > >
> > >   GnomeApp
> > >    |
> > >    |---GtkVBox
> > >         |
> > >         |---BonoboDock
> > >         |       |---BonoboDockBand
> > >         |       |       |---BonoboDockItem
> > >         |       |               |---GtkHBox
> > >         |       |                     |---GtkButton
> > >         |       |                     |     |---GtkLabel
> > >         |       |                     |
> > >         |       |                     |---GtkLabel
> > >         |       |                     |---GtkEntry
> > >         |       |---BonoboDockBand
> > >         |       |       |---BonoboDockItem
> > >         |       |               |---GtkMenuBar   (There're 5
> > >GtkImageMenuItems with GtkAccelLabel)
> > >         |       |                       |---GtkImageMenuItem
> > >         |       |                                    |---GtkAccelLabel
> > >         |       |---GtkVBox
> > >         |                   |---GtkHBox
> > >         |                             |---GtkVBox
> > >         |                                         |---GtkTable
> > >(This is the character table & there're many such buttons)
> > >         |
> > >|---GtkButton               (with lable)
> > >
> > >|
> > >|---GtkLabel
> > >         |
> > >         |---GtkHBox
> > >                 |---GnomeAppBar
> > >                         |---GtkFrame
> > >                                 |---GtkLabel
> > >
> > >
> > >      I intend to do the following :
> > >      1)Provide AtkRelation for the label and the text in the main window
> > >as well as for the spin button and
> > >          text  in  the 'browse charaters' option.
> > >      2)Since the gnome status bar used in the main window is not
> > >accessible, I plan to give the same
> > >          information  that appears on the status bar as tooltip to the
> > >character buttons.
> > >
> > >     Would like to get your valuable comments in this regard.
> > >
> > >     Thanks and regards
> > >     Muktha
> > >
> >
>