Re: Accessible Name

[Peter Korn <peter korn sun com>]

Hi Padraig ,

> Is there a consenus on this?
> 
> If there is, I will update the document and make sure that the code reflects
> this.
> 
> Is one consequence of this that AtkText interface will be implemented on
> GailItem?
> 
> Does this mean that we do not need GailLabel at all?
> 
> Does this also apply to GailStatusbar, i.e. instead of exposing the label as a
> child of GailStatusbar the text on the label will be the name of the
> statusbar.

Yes, I think in virtually all cases (and perhaps all), we should hide label
children/progeny and expose their label text as the AccessibleName of their
appropriate ancestor.  This simplifies screen access logic dramatically, and
makes for a clean separation of responsibility (what the widget/application must
provide vs. the screen access product ferret out).

We may well want GailLabel however.  It depends upon how GtkLabel is used.  If
it's ever used as a top-level bit of static text, then we definitely need
GailLabel.  


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibiliy team

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> > Padraig,
> >
> > The document may be incorrect-- we had several discussions about this, and
> > I think we came to the conclusion that items, menu and list items,
> > shouldn't have any children, but simply expose the text of their label as
> > their name.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > At 09:58 AM 5/23/2001 +0100, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > >The ATK Widget implementation proposal at
> > >http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/tech-docs/GTK-impl.html
> > >contains proposal for Accessible Name.
> > >
> > >For instance for GtkItem we have
> > >
> > >If child widget is a label, the accessible name is considered to be the
> > >text of
> > >this label. Otherwise, the GtkItem widget is considered nameless.
> > >
> > >
> > >I would like to make sure we are as one on what this means.
> > >
> > >What effect will atk_object_set_name() have for a GailItem?
> > >
> > >Will it set the accessible name whoich then be returned by
> > >atk_object_get_name()?
> > >
> > >Does the description above describe what will happen if atk_object_set_name()
> > >has not been called?
> > >
> > >Padraig
> > >
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