Re: [g-a-devel]Representing Accessible Text in gnome-help

["padraig o'briain" <Padraig Obriain Sun COM>]

Peter Korn wrote:
> >
> > I run the command gnome-help without any arguments and I get a window
> > containing a link called "Manual Pages". Clicking on that link gives
> > me a window containg a link called "Applications" etc.. Perhaps we
> > should postpone this discussion until we have finished discussing
> > nautilus help.
> 
> Hmmm... I played a bunch more with gnome-help and at-poke, and found some
> interesting things.
> 
> Looking at a directory listing of help files (specifically the one at
> "Manual pages/Applications"), I see in at-poke only two objects in the
> content region of the gnome-help application: the title object "Manual
> pages/Applications", and then a 23,452 character text object containing
> all of the rest.
> 
> I think that ATs will have to deal with both situations - very
> heirarchical in a document with tons of small accessible-text objects, and
> very flat.
> 

I think that this is bug #117049. The issue is how does an AT know that a link has been clicked and that a new page has been displayed.


> I did notice what appears to be a bug though: I'm unable to get gnome-help
> to expose the correct objects for one of the man pages in the list of
> applications (e.g. the man page for 'ar').  at-poke insists that I'm still
> looking at the directory listing for "Manual pages/Applications").
> 
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team