Re: [orca-list] Missing text boxes

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey Storm.

> I have noticed on 2 sites now, http://xltweet.com and
> http://notepub.com that the text box for adding an entry appears to be
> missing. The username and password boxes are there, on notepub the
> register/login box is there, but the big text area is not visible to
> Orca.

Looking at both sites with Accerciser and firefox 3.5.8, the big note
areas happen to be of ATK_ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME. In other words, they're
basically claiming to be web pages. Granted, they do each have
ATK_STATE_EDITABLE, and we might could work that into Orca's definition
of "things that are entries". But it would be neat if objects which are
entries were of ATK_ROLE_ENTRY or ATK_ROLE_TEXT.

I'll look for the Mozilla a11y guys this week and see if I can get an
answer out of them as to why the above is the case.

In the meantime, would you mind doing me a favor and filing a bug about
this in GNOME's bugzilla? (bonus points for keyword 'accessibility' and
blocks '404403'. <smile>)

Thanks! Take care.
--joanie