[g-a-devel] ATK STATE_EDITABLE

[Alexander Surkov <surkov alexander gmail com>]

Hi. There's interesting discussion about editable vs unavailable state
happening at Mozilla bug -
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733382. I put here some
summary of it.

The ATK spec says: "Indicates the user can change the contents of this
object" - http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/atk-constants.html#atk-state-type-constants.
That means readonly and disabled text controls shouldn't be exposed as
editable. ATs might be interested to know whether the object is
potentially editable to put it into navigation order. Also that makes
it similar to other 'able' states like expandable or multiselectable
except focusable state which is sort of opposite to absent enabled
state. So let's consider an exampe:

<p contentEditable="true" aria-disabled="true">

Currently: no enabled state, no editable state. This paragraph exposed
absolutely identically to plain <p>.
Proposed: no enabled state, editable state is presented. AT understand
this paragraph is sort of control and can be used for typing when
enabled.

Please let me know what you think.

Thank you.
Alex