[orca-list] Description of empty checkbutton / radiobutton / entry



Hello,

We have come across an odd thing with checkbutton/radiobutton: in
some cases, no label is set for them because the visual context is
relatively obvious through greying of what gets enabled/disabled, but
a tooltip is set so the user can make sure.  Similarly, there can be
an entry with obvious visual context (an image), and a tooltip for the
entry.
I have attached a glade example which can be run with
glade-previewer --filename tooltip.glade

Orca does not annouce the tooltip, but only the type
(checkbutton/radiobutton/entry).  In accerciser, there is no Text
interface for checkbutton/radiobutton (since there is no label), but
there is a description which Orca could take instead.  Similarly, even
if it is not labelled-by something, orca could use the entry description
instead. We could of course make the application use an AtkObject to add
the labelling, but it looks odd when the tooltip could be enough.

I'm not asking for the fix now, we can see that later, I am just
wondering which way we want to fix, to know what we want to do in
LibreOffice: I'd tend to think that Orca should pick up the description
(actually the tooltip) as a label, do you agree?  Or perhaps it could
pose problems? Like, for instance because the description could be too
long for being used as a label (although, if there is no other label,
the description is probably short)?

Samuel

Attachment: tooltip.glade
Description: Text document



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