Re: [g-a-devel] exposing characteristics of dates in a calendar

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Mike,

Description is designed for human-reading, not for something like a 
state/status indication.  We have things like Focused, Selected, etc. in 
AccessibleState.  You can imagine a screen reader script wanting to pick 
out this info - it would have to parse descriptions for that - the kind 
of ugliness that was stuffed into MSAA because there weren't other 
richer ways of conveying needed info. 


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

> Brad just reminded me that atk objects have a "description", so that 
> could be a good way to expose a date being today, although, from a 
> brief look at the code, it seems that Orca currently only reads an 
> object's description in certain cases.
>
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Mike Gorse wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We're trying to a11y-enable the SWF MonthCalendar control in Mono.  
> > It represents "today" by placing a big red circle around the number, 
> > and we're trying to figure out how to expose that in atk.  I was 
> > thinking of adding an attribute, to be returned either by 
> > getAttributes or getRunAttributes, for the object representing today, 
> > although I don't know if there is a standard attribute that we could 
> > use for it.  I can't think of a better way to handle it, though.  A 
> > date can also be bold, so we'll need to add a text attribute to 
> > handle that case.
> >
> > Does anyone have any input?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Mike G-
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