Re: [g-a-devel]RE: (no subject)

[Gilbert Fang <gilbert fang sun com>]

Hi, Bill

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 05:27, Bill Haneman wrote:

> > Evolution needs an editor as well, which gtkhtml2 lacks.
> 
> Noted by Bharat.  Accessibility will need CSS, which gtkhtml lacks.

Yes, gtkhtml does not support CSS, but I donot see the essential
relationship between CSS and accessibility. 

Now gtkhtml has a testing tool -- "testgtkhtml", and we do use at-poke
get many information of that.  So, I do not think CSS-support is the
prerequisite condition of accessibility. 

And York, how do you think about it?

Gilbert  


> Either way work is needed.  Personally I'd rather deal with the gtkhtml2
> codebase, but the Evo guys may not agree ;-)
> 
> - Bill
>  
> > Luis
> > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Gilbert Fang [mailto:gilbert fang sun com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 6:31 PM
> > > > To: Bill Haneman
> > > > Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org;
> > > > gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org
> > > > Subject: (no subject)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi, Bill
> > > > 
> > > > I plan to make the atk implementation of  the Gal and gtkhtml module.
> > > >  
> > > > I read the "GNOME Accessibilityf or Developers(CVS draft)". ( I could
> > > > not find it at gnome website now, is it deleted?) . It is said that
> > > > "programs that make sue of GAIL are written as GTK modules". 
> > > > And I found
> > > > that the exsting a11y codes of Gal and gtkhtml are built as  modules. 
> > > >  
> > > > But I found two kind of modules. One is GTK module with its 
> > > > init entry.
> > > > And other is as I name it Accessibilty module which has an different
> > > > entry .
> > > >   
> > > > The following is from libgnome/gnome-program.c
> > > > ======================================
> > > >  static gboolean
> > > > accessibility_invoke_module (GnomeProgram *program,
> > > > 			     const char   *libname,
> > > > 			     gboolean      init)
> > > > {
> > > > 	GModule    *handle;
> > > > 	void      (*invoke_fn) (void);
> > > > 	const char *method;
> > > > 	gboolean    retval = FALSE;
> > > > 	char       *module_name;
> > > > 
> > > > 	if (init)
> > > > 		method = "gnome_accessibility_module_init";
> > > > 	else
> > > > 		method = "gnome_accessibility_module_shutdown";
> > > > 
> > > > 	module_name = find_accessibility_module (program, libname);
> > > > 
> > > > 	if (!module_name) {
> > > > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: failed to find 
> > > > module '%s' which "
> > > > 			   "is needed to make this application 
> > > > accessible",
> > > > 			   libname);
> > > > 
> > > > 	} else if (!(handle = g_module_open (module_name, 
> > > > G_MODULE_BIND_LAZY)))
> > > > {
> > > > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: failed to load 
> > > > module '%s': '%s'",
> > > > 			   libname, g_module_error ());
> > > > 
> > > > 	} else if (!g_module_symbol (handle, method, (gpointer 
> > > > *)&invoke_fn)) {
> > > > 		g_warning ("Accessibility: error library '%s' 
> > > > does not include "
> > > > 			   "method '%s' required for 
> > > > accessibility support",
> > > > 			   libname, method);
> > > > 		g_module_close (handle);
> > > > 
> > > > 	} else {
> > > > 		retval = TRUE;
> > > > 		invoke_fn ();
> > > > 	}
> > > > 
> > > > 	g_free (module_name);
> > > > 
> > > > 	return retval;
> > > > }
> > > > =================
> > > > It seems the accessibility module should have the
> > > > "gnome_accessibility_module_init" function as the entry function.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Then what is the better one? Which way should I do for the future?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks a lot.
> > > > Gilbert 
> > > > 
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