Re: [g-a-devel]Question about reading text "blobs"

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Hey Malcolm,

Sounds like a cool app.  If you need early testers... :)

Yes, I think if you allowed the cursor to move, but marked it as 
uneditable, that'd work for now.  Eventually, I think Gnopernicus should 
have a way to read the text contained in a text widget even if it's 
uneditable and doesn't have a cursor.  It's not a question of the text 
being unavailable to Gnoeprnicus, it's a matter of figuring out the UI 
to let the user read the text using Gnopernicus.

But, just allowin the text widget to get focus and allowing a cursor 
to be moved around it would be finee.  And, if you didn't want this 
behavior by default, you could even make this behavior dependent on the 
/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility gconf key.  So if that key isn't 
set, you don't display the cursor, and maybe don't allow the text widgets 
to gain focus.

Marc

On 4 Jun 2003, Malcolm 
Tredinnick wrote:

> Mark's recent posts about Gnopernicus and Balsa reminded me of something
> I have been meaning to get some advice about:
> 
> I am writing an application which will need to be accessible (think of
> something like a talking book). Portions of the display of this
> application are chunks of text that I am currently dropping into a text
> widget which I have marked in Glade as not editable and "don't show
> cursor". Does this mean I am going to have to go to extra lengths to
> make sure that a screen reader will be able to see the contents? Or
> should I permit the cursor to be moved around the text and just not
> allow editing?
> 
> I seem to have worked out that I need to leave the text widget as able
> to take the focus just so that a screen reader can get there in the
> first place. This seems necessary just so that any scrollbars can be
> manipulated via the keyboard.
> 
> My accessibility setup on my computers is a bit suspicious at the
> moment; sometimes it works, sometimes things go pear-shaped. So it is a
> bit hard to tell if things are broken by design or broken by accident
> when I am testing some of this.
> 
> Any advice appreciated,
> Malcolm
> 
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