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

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

> The "<shift><f10>" currently does not pop up the menu. Would fixing that
> suffice in which case AtkAction may not be needed?
>
> Yes, I would think so.

> 2. Performance information is communicated in a highly visual manner (
> using graphs ) and there is no supporting text information available.
>
> a. Would a tooltip ( ATK description for the PangoLayout accessible
> Object) containing a one line information of the current values
> suffice?
>
> For e.g., "CPU 1%, disk 0, Errors 0" could be a tooltip if 3 meters are
> displayed and this would get updated after every sampling.
>
> My opinion is that this would be acceptable, but not optimal.  I think I 
> would rather see the AtkObject for the drawing area expose one child for 
> each meter which is displayed on the drawing area.  the AtkObjects for the 
> meters would have appropriate names and descriptions describing the type 
> of the meters, and would then use AtkValue to denote the current value and 
> range of the meters.  For example, to simply say CPU Load is .45 doesn't 
> say much.  Is this .45% or 45%... etc.  This is where AtkValue is useful, 
> as a maximum and minimum value can be defined.



> b. Since the location within the drawing area where the mouse is
> pointing can be found, could the tooltip specifically describe the meter
> in that area?
>
> That would be useful, but I'm not sure it is useful from an accessibility 
> point of view.  Possibly I'm missing something...


> 3. Additionally, color is used inform the user when a parameter crosses
> a threshold. This doesnt seem very accessible.
>
> If the threshold is crossed for a particular parameter, an additional
> phrase "threshold crossed" could be added in the tooltip?
>
> Yes, this could work.