Re: [orca-list] Labeling spin/combo buttons

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Nolan.

It might be an issue in Orca. I would need a test case to try using
Accerciser and Orca.

Thanks!
--joanie

On 03/29/2018 10:27 AM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Posted about this to gnome-accessibility yesterday but didn't get a
> response, and I don't know if this is my issue or Orca's.
>
>
> I'm hacking on the CHIRP amateur radio programming software. CHIRP
> programatically creates settings screens for supported radios, creating
> text labels and settings-specific widgets. Unfortunately, it doesn't
> associate these widgets with their respective labels.
>
>
> I'm trying to learn GTK development. After spending a while googling how
> to associate a widget with its label, I learned that GTK does this via
> accessible names on the widget. Is that accurate?
>
>
> If so, how do I set an accessible name/label for
> spinbuttons/combobuttons? My code works fine for checkboxes and text
> entries. It fails with spin/combo buttons, though. By "fails" I mean
> that, despite getting the correct label value, and setting the
> accessible name on the widget, Orca doesn't speak the label before the
> widget's value.
>
>
> Does Orca use a different mechanism for labeling spin/combo buttons? Or
> is this an Orca issue? Happy to send a debug.out if this isn't
> programmer error on my end.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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