Re: help with data on webkit accessibility

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 20:10 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Joanmarie Diggs
> <joanmarie diggs gmail com> wrote:
> > Hey Xan.
> >
> > The caret navigation ones are key:
> >
> > * 25526 - Additional support is needed for caret browsing. Almost done,
> > but home, end etc. are waiting for something in DRT.
> >
> > * 25533 - Elements on the same line should be treated as such by caret
> > navigation. Hasn't been touched.
> >
> > We also need to unbork the table hierarchy (30895) because if memory
> > serves me, tables are used to display tables of contents. And presumably
> > could be used to display a table of commands, etc. Related to this is
> > 30896 - getting the column header.
> >
> > Making sure that we have the correct states on text objects (27048) also
> > needs doing. That hasn't been touched, but we needed to collapse the
> > text objects first anyway. This one shouldn't be hard.
> >
> > I need to get back to 25677 (extents for characters and ranges). I had
> > that pretty much working, but that was before the collapsed hierarchy.
> >
> > I'm afraid I had to stop working on these things largely due to Firefox
> > regressions and changes. :-( Hopefully starting this weekend, I'll be
> > able to focus on WebKitGtk again.
> >
> > The other issues need addressing as well, but in terms of basic Yelp,
> > the above are the priorities.
> 
> Right, so my impression was that those issues made the experience
> not-that-good but I wasn't aware that for some people it simply meant
> "yelp does nothing", which is pretty bad. Maybe that was me not paying
> enough attention, but it would be good to prioritize bugs even further
> along the lines "we need this or yelp is useless". I get from this
> that 25677 is the bug to focus on at the moment then? :)

The primary means of accessing Yelp will not be flat review. It will be
Orca presenting the current line/word/character/etc. as the user
navigates. So we need the caret navigation stuff in place. That's
something I cannot do; re-working what I've done on 25677 is something I
can do. :-)

--joanie