Re: Is there a public list of events that should fire when ARIA is used? from Joseph Scheuhammer on 2015-02-23 (public-pfwg@w3.org from February 2015)

From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:08:27 -0500
To: Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@google.com>, Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@ssbbartgroup.com>
CC: "public-pfwg@w3.org" <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <54EB426B.9010905@alum.mit.edu>

Hi Dominic,

> ... it's exposed via IAccessibleRelation with the code 
> IA2_RELATION_DESCRIBED_BY. I can't find an event that's supposed to 
> fire if that property changes. Maybe someone else knows?

I took a look at AT-SPI events.  From what I can tell, the only 
relationship change that triggers an event is parent changes.  The event 
is "object:property-change:accessible-parent" [1].

I can't find anything comparable in the IA2 list of events [2].

Hope that's useful.

[1] 
https://developer.gnome.org/libatspi/2.13/AtspiEventListener.html#atspi-event-listener-register
[2] 
http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yspecs/ia2/docs/html/_accessible_event_i_d_8idl.html#ae26846b6d521727ab696d20c3f43c0b5

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