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

["Mukund" <mukund rajagopalan wipro com>]

Marc,

> then just emit name-changed and description-changed
> when they
> change so the AT can know about the changes.

This would mean the emission happen frequently since one of
the fields under discussion is Time. Wouldn't that be a
performance issue ? Hope am not missing something here.

Cheers,
Mukund.


> 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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