[orca-list] Live regions in a non-web application?

[Carolyn MacLeod <Carolyn_MacLeod ca ibm com>]

Hello.

I am one of the developers of Eclipse.
I work on the SWT team. We are trying to enable improved accessibility
support for the next release of Eclipse.
Eclipse is a cross-platform application,
written in Java, but it uses the accessibility features available on the
platform rather than using the Java Access Bridge.

I am currently trying to get "live
regions" working. I have a little test with a gtk_label that is updated
based on what a user types in a gtk_text_view. The text_view is "describedBy"
the label (using a relation). And the object properties of the label include
aria-live:assertive and aria-atomic:true.

This little test works with JAWS on
Windows. But Orca does not announce changes in the label. What is Orca
looking for in this situation? Is it possible that Orca only looks for
live regions in web applications or browsers? This is just a plain window
with a label and a text view. There are no pages being loaded or anything.
I also tried container-live=assertive and container-atomic=true, because
I noticed some Orca mailing list hits using those terms.

Before I start learning Git and Python
<grin> does anyone have any ideas?

Thank-you,
Carolyn