Re: Can GOK work with autocompletion?

[Evan Yan <Evan Yan Sun COM>]

Hi Peter & David,

I feel that app-autocompletion is something similar to pop-up menu. 
Could we leverage the implementation of accessible pop-up menu?

I found GOK can update to show autocompletion items under some 
particular situation, like the following steps:
1. start Firefox and locate to www.google.com, focus on the "search" 
textbox;
2. select GOK UI-Grab
3. click on the "search" textbox by mouse directly, not through GOK, 
that makes the autocompletion pop up.
Then, GOK will update to show autocompletion items. However, clicking on 
the items shown by GOK has no effect except collapsing the 
autocompletion window.
Hope this could help.

Besides GOK can't work with autocompletion, when autocompletion in 
Firefox pops up, it takes minutes for GOK to start responsing any action 
on it. I could see by the event-listener tool of at-spi that there are 
hundreds of events through GOK and Firefox, it seems GOK are refreshing 
all the atk objects. is that a normal phenomenon or somthing wrong?

Thank you,
Evan

Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Hmmm... I wonder about using the AccessibleAction interface for this, 
> with a naming convention we might all follow for the .  Something like:
>
> "auto-complete:<string>"
>
> as the action name, where "<string>" is the actual auto-complete text 
> that would be inserted (and thus displayed on the GOK key).  Then the 
> tooltip-like window that appears with the auto-complete options would 
> implement the ATK_Action interface.
> This is more heavy-weight than having a special role for the 
> tooltip-like window with text to be extracted, but it is also less 
> constraining of the user interface implementation that programmers 
> render.
>
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> > Hi guys. Technically I'm on holiday today.  I think we could choose 
> > an existing
> > event (or propose a new one) for notification regarding this... and 
> > GOK could
> > create a key representing the current app-autocompletion.
> >
> > Nice idea guys!
> >
> > cheers,
> > D
> > Quoting Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>:
> >
> >  
> > > Hi Evan,
> > >
> > > This is an interesting idea - having GOK work with auto-completion!  
> > > GOK has its own work completion algorithm, but that by its nature 
> > > cannot have application-specific knowledge, and so generally won't 
> > > do as good a job.
> > >
> > > The question is, how should GOK show such application-specific word 
> > > completion, and how do we communicate that between the application 
> > > and GOK via AT-SPI.  Evan, David - any thoughts?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Peter Korn
> > > Accessibility Architect,
> > > Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> > >    
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm now working on a mozilla a11y bug, about autocompletion. The 
> > > > URL of
> > > > the bug is
> > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338242
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure whether GOK can work with autocompletion.
> > > > When I input something used before into a textbox, the autocompletion
> > > > will pop up, could GOK update to show the autocompletion items?
> > > > I also tried that in Evolution. When writing a email, inputing a mail
> > > > address which have been in the contact list, the autocompletion pop 
> > > > up,
> > > > GOK also can't work with it.
> > > >
> > > > Is that a GOK bug?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Evan
> > > >
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