Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Mapping of aria-kbdshortcuts for ATK/AT-SPI2 and IA2

Hi Joanie,

This is one of those cases where IA2 and ATK are going to differ. This 
time, it's because MSAA (on which IA2 is based) already has an 
accKeyboardShortcut property 
<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd318482%28v=vs.85%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396> 
which just exposes a keyboard shortcut. I think this lends itself well 
to exposing aria-kbdshortcuts.

Thanks,
Jamie

On 24/02/2016 6:02 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> We need to come up with mappings for aria-kbdshortcuts for ATK/AT-SPI2
> and IA2. And, unlike aria-errormessage, I got nothing (or almost nothing).
>
> When the feature and question of mappings was first raised, I was
> thinking it could be mapped via the Action interface. At least in the
> case of my platform, that's where keyboard shortcuts are exposed. But
> those shortcuts are associated with an action which can be performed by
> the Action interface. And that's not the case with aria-kbdshortcuts. As
> the spec states:
>
> <quote>
> Adding the aria-kbdshortcuts attribute to an element does not change the
> behavior of the user agent by mapping the specified keyboard shortcuts
> to the triggering of the element's activation function. It is still up
> to the application to implement support for the keyboard shortcuts. The
> aria-kbdshortcuts attribute exposes the fact that these shortcuts exist
> so that assistive technologies can communicate this information to users.
> </quote>
>
> So if it's exposed via the action interface, we'd have the shortcut and
> a name, but we'd have to know (and user agents would have to expose)
> that the action might not be something we could actually perform. With
> respect to the latter, on the surface it seems easy because, at least on
> my platform, atk_action_do_action() returns a boolean reflecting
> success. However, in practice, at least some implementors always return
> true because they don't want performing an action to be blocking. In
> other words, the return value is useless.
>
> So.... Do we map this property via the Action attribute and just deal
> with the fact that we cannot perform actions, or.... Something else?
>
> --joanie
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