Re: Keybindings ATK and JAVA

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

Bill,

Our proposal for ATK currently allows one to obtain the keybindings for an 
action.

Your mail would seem to imply that selection is an action, which is news to me.

Padraig

> Subject: Re: Keybindings ATK and JAVA
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> >In Java, if the documentation, 
> 
>http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/javax/accessibility/AccessibleKeyBinding.
h
> >tml, is to be believed, AccessibleKeyBinding is used only to identify the 
> >keystrokes required to select an object.
> >
> >This seems to be different to what is proposed for ATK. Is this difference 
> >intended?
> 
> I think that our proposal for ATK is basically a superset of the Java 
keybinding API.  
> We will be exposing keybindings not just for selection, but activation, etc.  
One reason 
> that this is very useful is to help ATs keep from colliding with GTK+ and 
application 
> keybindings.  It also means that certain types of AT can synthesize keystrokes 
for 
> shortcuts, which is very useful for scripting and for voice command 
interfaces.
> 
> -Bill
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> >Padraig
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