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

["Steve Lee" <steve fullmeasure co uk>]

Isn't Description potentially internationalised as well, so adding problems?

-- 
Steve Lee
Open Source Assistive Technology Software and Accessibility
fullmeasure.co.uk


2008/12/8 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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