Re: [g-a-devel] Keeping/removing AccessibleText get by Sentence [Fwd: Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Suggest remove IA2_TEXT_BOUNDARY_SENTENCE]

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> In addition to the discussion about state deprecations, I'd like to 
> give another kick to the apple cart - keeping/removing some of the 
> text range constants.  I put the letter/word/line/sentence stuff in in 
> the first place, thinking it'd be useful for several AT use cases and 
> trusting that the Java parsing support for those chunks would do the 
> right thing.
>
> Alas, as Harald points out supporting this generally (especially 
> sentence) is a right pain.  And I have a feeling that screen readers 
> aren't using this API.  So, while we are in a deprecating mood, 
> perhaps we should deprecate this too?
I am not in favor of this removal.  It's actually much easier to 
implement in most cases than "LINE", and we need to keep the old ones 
around for back-compat guarantees anyhow.

I think a good case can be made for retaining this for 'talking book', 
page-reading, and similar use cases (i.e. meta clipboard apps that cuts 
one sentence, etc.)

regards

Bill
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
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>
> Subject:
> Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Suggest remove IA2_TEXT_BOUNDARY_SENTENCE
> From:
> Harald Fernengel <harald trolltech com>
> Date:
> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:24:35 +0100
> To:
> accessibility-ia2 lists freestandards org
>
> To:
> accessibility-ia2 lists freestandards org
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 21:30, Aaron Leventhal wrote:
>   
> > Application internals almost never have support for this, and developers
> > will have to do lots of extra work to support it. Very difficult to
> > implement given I18N.
> >
> > I don't believe this is something the AT wants to have the app support
> > for just accessibility, because the support will end up being incorrect
> > or very different between implementations.
> >     
>
> I agree to this, I'd love to see Sentence go. It's not only a nightmare to 
> implement, it can also lead to obscure bugs with languages that don't have a 
> concept of "sentence".
>
> Harald
>
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