Re: [orca-list] Orca now supports longdesc

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Joanie:

Really glad to see this! Thanks, and just maybe we might include SOME
testing results for the W3C Implementation Report using Orca.

In particular I'd be very interested to know whether longdesc is being
reported to AT-SPI as per the second paragraph of Sec. 3.0.3 of the candidate specification:

    3.0.3 User Agents

...

          If the longdesc value is valid, User agents must expose the
          link to relevant APIs, especially accessibility-oriented APIs.
           
           http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/CR-html-longdesc-20140812/


           I ask because our testing results currently include reporting
           only to MSAA and the Director was concerned about that. I
           think we'll be OK in any case, but it might be easier to
           report a second API if we can, so any info on that would be
           most helpful.

           TIA

           Janina


Joanmarie Diggs writes:
> Hey all.
>
> Orca now explicitly supports longdesc for Gecko. In particular:
>
> If you are navigating in content where there is an image that has a
> longdesc attribute, Orca will announce the presence of this attribute.
> Because Firefox provides access to the description via its native
> right-click menu, once you know the image has a longdesc, one option is
> to move to that image via Orca's navigation (caret, structural
> navigation key "g", or flat review) and then you can synthesize a right
> click on the image to bring up the Firefox context menu. Look for the
> item called "View Description".
>
> Alternatively, you can skip all the above and bring up the list of
> images with Alt + Shift + G. You can activate images with longdescs by
> selecting the image and then pressing the Activate button in the dialog
> (Alt + A for English locales).
>
> Lastly, yes, the list of images dialog should itself indicate the
> presence of the longdesc. I'll do that once we figure out what is and
> isn't a "useless" image and what all to present (or not present) about
> images in that dialog.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
> --joanie
>
>
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