Re: [g-a-devel]Accessibility for cdplayer applet

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

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> To: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>, deepa natarajan wipro com
> Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]Accessibility for cdplayer applet
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> My opinion is that name and description would be adequate for these two 
> fields.  then just emit name-changed and description-changed when they 
> change so the AT can know about the changes.  Value doesn't work well for 
> time values, I.E. values which are based on hours:minutes:seconds format, 
> so I don't think it would work well.
> 
> Just my opinion...
> 

Good enough for me ...


Padraig

> Marc
> 
> At 03:58 PM 2/28/2002 +0000, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> 
> 
> > > HI,
> > >
> > > > > All the buttons and track info are packed inside a box. Buttons 
already
> > > > > have tooltips.
> > > > >
> > > > > Accessible name and description has to be set for gtk-buttons. The 
> > track
> > > >
> > > > Are the tooltips referred to above adequate for the description?
> > >
> > > E.g. : for a stop button the tooltip is "Stop". I thought i could set
> > > this as the accessible name and set description as "Click this button to
> > > stop" Is that o.k. ?
> >
> >What you are saying is that the tooltip is inadequate. Your other option 
> >would
> >be to change the tooltip. I have no opinion on the best approach.
> >
> > >
> > > In case this lengthy description is not required then i could do away
> > > with what the tooltip gives me.
> > >
> > > > > information and time elapsed is displayed using
> > > > > gkt_image_new_from_pixbuf. Now i could set up the accessible name and
> > > > > description for these 2 images. But the gtk-image here does not 
> > react to
> > > > > state change. So ferret does not report this widget. But considering 
an
> > > > > AT would get to the atk object by traversing the tree of accessible
> > > > > objects, i could do away with this implementation.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > How will a blind user get the track information and time elapsed?
> > >
> > > The time elapsed is drawn using a gtk_image_new_from_pixbuf. If i do a
> > > get accessible for the image and set the AtkObject name to : time [
> > > which i plan to get from
> > > cdrom_deveice_status_t.relative_address.minute/second ]. Then would that
> > > be o.k ?
> > >
> > > The description could be more descriptive, like "time elapsed is :
> > > <time>"
> > >
> > > And i do the same mentioned for track information.
> > >
> > > What is your opinion
> > >
> >
> >I believe that there have been discussions questioning the appropriateness of
> >using name and description for values which change but I was not paying
> >attention. Perhaps Marc has a view on this.
> >
> >Could you implement AtkValue for information such as time elapsed and
> >description would identify the units.
> >
> >I am not sure whether a similar approach would work for track information.
> >
> >Padraig
> >
> >
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Deepa.
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