Re: Name of Accessible (Not the Label Name)

["Udayan Singh" <udayan singh gmail com>]

Missed out sending it to the list.

On 4/30/07, Udayan Singh <udayan singh gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> On 4/24/07, Bill Haneman <gnome billhaneman ie> wrote:
> > Hi Udayan and Evan;
> >
> > In the case you mention below, the assistive technology should check for
> > the presence of the Accessibility_Text interface.  In most cases (i.e.
> > other than text entry fields, for instance), the assistive technology
> > should expose the contents of the Text interface to the end-user, not
> > the 'name' property.  This would solve your problem/issue.
> >
>
> The HTML snippet that is mentioned below is for Text entry.. So it
> really doesnt solve my problem. Why do you say so ?
>
>
> > I agree that widget accessible-name properties should be end-user-usable
> > as well.
> >
>
> I understand that you also agree that the "name" is not exposed. So
> would you agree that its presently a limitation ? I also gave an
> example for a table, where I am facing the same issue ..
>
>
>
> regards,
> Udayan
>
> > regards
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > Evan Yan wrote:
> > > Udayan Singh wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi All,
> > >>
> > >> I have been using "cspi" (i.e. at-spi) library in my application.
> > >> Scenario is that I am using HTML programming on web page and the
> > >> application is executing in GNOME environment (GTK+ is for UI and C
> > >> Programming).
> > >>
> > >> So the web page has something like this :
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> .....
> > >>
> > >> <p>
> > >> <label for="Label2">Label2:</label>
> > >> <input type="text" name="Lb2" id="Label2" value="Some Text" />
> > >> </p>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >> Now if i click on the text box that Label2 will have then the output
> > >> that I get is :
> > >>
> > >> Name of event's source : Label2
> > >>
> > >>
> > > I think that's the correct behavior.
> > > "Lb2" is the programming name of the textfield, not visible to users,
> > > while "Label2" labeled the textfield, is just what's meaningful to end
> > > users.
> > > So from accessibility's aspect, we should expose "Label2" but not "Lb2"
> > > to users.
> > >
> > > -Evan
> > >
> > >> ................................................
> > >> But I want to get the "name" i.e. "Lb2".
> > >>
> > >> Which API should I use to get this done ? Any inputs would be great.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance..
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> Udayan
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