- From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:31:56 -0400
- To: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com>, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Hi Joanie,
Not a complete reply, but the end of your message reminded me of a
feature in IA2.
You wrote:
> I think what the improvements to ATK (and in turn AT-SPI2) may be is two
> new methods:
>
> a. get_set_size()
> b. get_position_in_set()
>
> Seems like that would be a more reliable -- and implementation-agnostic
> -- way for ATs to get the needed information to pass along to end users.
>
> Related aside: Are the ATs on other platforms having to play a similar
> game of "go fish" when trying to present things like set size and
> position in set?
That's similar to IAccessible2::groupPosition() [1] which retrieves the
level (think hierarchy), group size, and position in a group. This is
how aria-level, aria-setsize, and aria-posinset are exposed using
MSAA+IA2 [2].
A quick (very!) web search reveals that NVDA (likely) uses it [3].
[1]
http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/interface_i_accessible2.html#a94d4d84e000ef2fa3f2abf1148779941
[2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_group_position
[3] http://community.nvda-project.org/ticket/77
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Received on Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:32:27 UTC