Re: [g-a-devel] Extensible states (or properties)

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Sorry all, I made a typo here that may appear to reverse my meaning.  I 
wrote "not" where I meant "now", as in "we are NOW considering", as 
opposed to "we are NOT considering".  I attach the corrected text.

Bill Haneman wrote:

> I have to disagree with you about AccessibleDescription here; it's at 
> odds with the way we are using AccessibleDescription elsewhere on the 
> desktop.  We aren't using accessible-description as a catch-all for 
> annotations, but rather for a more verbose or descriptive rendition of 
> the object's "identity".  Thus accessible-description for an email 
> "cell" (remember that we're looking at a table here...) might be the 
> _whole_ message subject line, etc. whereas the onscreen rendition via 
> the Text interface may be truncated.  I submit that in the case we are 
> now considering, this would be a better use of the 'description' 
> attribute. ...