Re: [g-a-devel]AccessibleRelations
- From: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>
- To: david bolter utoronto ca, bill haneman sun com
- Cc: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
- Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]AccessibleRelations
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:22:21 +0100 (BST)
Try the gtk-demo appliction, and use the Dialog and message Boxes option.
Note that as gtk-demo is a pure GTK programs ratehr than a GNOME program you
must set the environment variable GTK_MODULES to "gail:atk-bridge" for it to be
accessible.
Padraig
> David:
>
> There's been a substantial amount of testing of AccessibleRelation. I
> believe that it's fairly commonly implemented across the GNOME 2
> desktop. I don't have the examples to hand but I do believe it's not
> uncommon.
>
> You can use at-poke to check for the presence of this API. Note however
> that until recently there were difficulties with reciprocity (we could
> fairly easily automatically provide LABEL_FOR but LABELLED_BY wasn't
> alwayws reciprocally exposed). However I believe this has recently been
> fixed/worked around in GAIL, so a recent build may expose LABELLED_BY
> more frequently.
>
> regards,
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:02, David Bolter wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have my suspicions that there hasn't been a lot of testing of the
> > AccessibleRelation stuff. I have done some work today on gok that makes
> > uses of this promising API. I am so far not finding an application that
> > is exposing such an interface in an expected ontext. In particular this
> > is what I am looking for:
> >
> > An accessible object that has an AccessibleEditableText interface *and*
> > a LABELLED_BY relation. Presumeably gtk dialogs would be prime
> > candidates (since the text fields probably don't expose useful names by
> > themselves). Can someone please confirm such a beast? I need to know
> > if my code is broken.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > David
> >
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