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

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 03:32, Gilbert Fang wrote:

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

It's there if you look at the w3c User Agent Guidelines.  We can
accomplish a lot without it, but the w3c spec is one that people will be
asking about and which may become a requirement in some quarters.

CSS is important for users with various vision problems, both in the
sense that we must be able to apply stylesheets via a standard
mechanism, and also because we need to be able to get stylesheet info
about the DOM (and the DOM too :-( )

So the w3c WAI UAG (user agent guidelines) put a lot of additional
requirements on us - at least given our current understanding.  All the
implications haven't been worked out yet, but it seems likely that DOM
and CSS will both be important to meeting these requirements in the
future. 

regards,

- Bill

> 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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