On 24/01/2008, Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > B. Ensure that the apps utilise a widgets library that supports AT-SPI.
GTK+ is very popular and it uses GAIL to automatically expose AT-SPI for stock widgets. So it is important for application developers to carefully consider the case for custom widgets and to ensure any they create are fully accessible. In addition application authors may also need to tune the stock accessiblity to make their applications as accessible as possible. We, as a community, need to advise other developers about these issues and provide the information and tools they need so they can make their apps fully accessible with little hassle. At GNOME summit in Boston it was clear that the wider GNOME community are aware of a11y and are keen to play their part. That is fantastic. There is a new plug-in for accerciser that makes application a11y testing easy. > Secondly, and this is a bit off the wall, to provide an additional call to > AT-SPI that apps can directly access to provide additional information that > would not normally be needed by a visually unimpaired user? > For instance, a classic one that comes to mind is a graphical status bar > like the one used on Update Manager - the unimpaired user can see the > progress of the bar, but for an impaired user if the ap could send out > additional information like the progress of the bar, or changes to a status > bar .... This could be used as an alternative to accessable widgets as > well. AT-SPI is rich enough to cover this specific case and almost any other. In general it is a matter of the toolkit/application writers exposing enough information through AT-SPI so that ATs can consume it. However until there are ATs or test harnesses to consume the information and thus create a demand for it, it is not going to be implemented or completely tested. For example when working on Jambu switch access I started exercising Firefox in ways that Orca doesn't so I found bugs and omissions. That's not a criticism of Firefox, rather it shows the reality and priorities of software development. -- Steve Lee -- Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers www.fullmeasure.co.uk _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
