Re: [orca-list] Fwd: Labels not read at first by GNOME Orca screen reader

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mírian:

Sorry for the delay -- we've been working furiously on a migration to 
the pyatspi library.  It's been a lot of work, and we're trying to get 
through the first phase prior to this Sunday.

I'm having trouble visualizing what's going on here, but it sounds like 
you're working on some sort of application setup wizard where you are 
reusing components.  These kinds of interfaces tend to get a little hard 
to handle, and we typically need to handle them with custom scripts.

Do you have code you can share?  I'd like to experience the behavior.

Thanks for asking about this, btw.  It is AWESOME when a developer cares 
about accessibility this early in the development process.  You win 
major points.  :-)

Will

Mírian Bruckschen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Perhaps this is the right place to re-post it... Sorry if it isn't.
> I'm having some issues with my pygtk application and orca, and didn't
> know where else to go. Below, my original message, originally posted
> to pygtk mailing list.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mírian Bruckschen
> Date: Oct 23, 2007 12:10 AM
> Subject: Labels not read at first by GNOME Orca screen reader
> To: pygtk daa com au
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure which is the right mailing list to post that. If it's not
> here, please let me know.
>
> I'm using Python and PyGTK to build my application, and I'm having an
> issue with my gtk.Label's and GNOME Orca screen reader. I have several
> windows, one activated after the other, and all of them have the
> following "layout": an ImageContainer, a Label and two Buttons (in
> fact, is the same window, with different image and label values at a
> time).
>
> Orca reads well and nicely the first window. Then, I press enter.
> Enter is programmed to change the label's text and the image.
> Everything goes well, except for the fact that Orca doesn't read the
> second label, unless I change the focus to another component (one of
> the buttons, for example) and re-focus on it. The focus seemed to be
> grabbed (the label text appears selected), but nothing is read.
>
> I'm using the following code to set the label text (and some
> formatting), and to grab the focus. Is there anything I'm missing, or
> may try to discover what I'm doing wrong?
>
> def changeText(game, widget_name, text):
>     # --
>     label_widget = game.get_widget(widget_name)
>     label_widget.set_line_wrap(gtk.WRAP_WORD)
>     label_text = text
>     label_widget.set_markup('<span size="18000">'+label_text+'</span>')
>     label_widget.set_use_markup(True)
>     label_widget.set_selectable(True)
>     # --
>     label_widget.grab_focus()
>
> Thank you very much for any comments,
>
> --
> Mírian Bruckschen