Re: GTK+ accessibility

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

you probably want to contact the gnome-accessibility team, on
gnome-accessibility-list gnome org 

On 15 July 2015 at 12:55, Miroslav Rajcic <miroslav rajcic inet hr> wrote:

> I've checked other programs and it seems that:
> 1. Windows native programs (see Notepad for example) obey this behavior,
> pressing Alt does select menu bar item
> 2. created basic GTK program with menu bar, this behavior is not obeyed (see
> test source code below)
>     I've played with different GTK settings like "gtk-auto-mnemonics" and
> "gtk-enable-mnemonics", but no help.

These are for mnemonics to appear, when you press Alt or at all,
respectively. The settings do not control focus.

> My question:
> - am I missing some setting here ?
> - is this unsupported?

This is largely something that only Windows does — I cannot reproduce
it on my Linux machine with any toolkit (GTK2, GTK3, Qt, or the ad hoc
toolkits used by Firefox and LibreOffice).

> Thanks for any tip, I'd like to improve the program accessibility for my
> users.

As I said, you probably want to contact the accessibility team to
discuss this with them. Then you may want to file a bug against the
GTK+ product on bugzilla.gnome.org. As I said, this seems to be a
Windows-specific behaviour, so it may need to stay confined to Windows
— I certainly don't expect my menus to be selected when I press Alt,
but only if I press Alt + mnemonic character for the specific menu.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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