Latest 1.1 working drafts of ARIA spec, Core mappings, and Accessible name calculation documents

The W3C has published updated working drafts. Here is the official W3C announcement: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4819 -- joseph. 'Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!"' - G. Bernhardt - ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing l

Latest working drafts of ARIA 1.1

The WAI-ARIA working group published new working drafts for ARIA 1.1: - Authoring Practices Guide, - Specification, - Core Mappings. For more details, see the announcement: http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20150514a -- joseph. 'Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!"' - G. Ber

Latest public working drafts of WAI-ARIA 1.1 publications.

The W3C published today a first public working draft of the "Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings", as well as updated working drafts of the "Core Accessibility Mappings" and "Accessible Rich Internet Applications" for version 1.1. The official announcement and links t

Re: Today (2014-11-27) meeting canceled: Thanksgiving edition

On 2014-11-27 8:45 AM, Alejandro Piñeiro wrote: Happy Thanksgiving for everybody that celebrates it. Ditto. -- joseph. 'Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!"' - G. Bernhardt - ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessib

Public working drafts release for WAI-ARIA 1.1

Two public working drafts of the WAI-ARIA 1.1 specification, and the Core Accessibility API Mappings were released earlier today (Jun 12, 2014): Link to the W3C announcement: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3896 Links to the documents: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-wai-aria-1.1-20140612/ ht

Fwd: Announcements: WAI-ARIA 1.0 is completed W3C Recommendation

Original Message Subject:Announcements: WAI-ARIA 1.0 is completed W3C Recommendation Resent-Date:Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:31:13 + Resent-From:wai-xt...@w3.org Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:30:56 -0700 From: Shawn Henry To: Judy Brewer , Janina Sajka , wai-xt..

Re: New magnifier UI: Input requested

Bas, Thank you very much for your response. I will definitely bear it in mind as the UI is developed. Would it be possible for you to take a screen shot of ZoomText's tracking UI, and send it to the list? If not, I will try to find time to fire it up and find those radio buttons. Thanks

Re: How to scroll the magnifier with the keyboard

Hi Bas, Thanks for your suggestion. Comments inline. What I'm looking for is a feature similar to the hotkey Ctrl+Alt+arrow of the Windows magnifier. This hotkey scrolls the magnifier in the direction of the arrow key without changing the position of the mouse pointer. Is such a feature a

Re: Fwd: How to enable focus & caret tracking in magnifier

Bas, Peter, Alejandro, Thanks for pointing out that the wiki magnfier page is out-of-date with respect to focus and caret tracking features and gsettings. Fixed. -- joseph. 'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.' 'K: Right. It's merely computer science.' - J. D. Klaun - _

New magnifier UI: Input requested

Improvements to the magnifier preferences dialog have been suggested. A mockup, courtesy of Allan Day, can be found at the following URL: https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/system-settings/universal-access/zoom-and-filters.png One of the additions is a check box labe

WAI-ARIA 1.0 is Proposed Recommendation

The WAI-ARIA specification is now a Proposed Recommendation. The official announcement from the W3C: On 06-Feb-2014 09:25:01 -0600, Shawn Henry wrote: Dear WAI Interest Group Participants, The W3C WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) announces Proposed Recommendation publications o

WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide reaches Candidate Recommendation status.

http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3525 -- joseph. 'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.' 'K: Right. It's merely computer science.' - J. D. Klaun - ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http

WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide Last Call draft released

The User Agent Implementation Guide for WAI-ARIA 1.0 has been published as a "Last Call" draft. The purpose of last call is to solicit comments and criticisms from any interested parties before publishing as a candidate recommended standard. Comments should be sent to the public-pfwg-comme...

Re: Regrets for this week's team meeting

Hi, Ditto for me -- I have dental appointment at the same time as the meeting. -- joseph. 'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.' 'K: Right. It's merely computer science.' - J. D. Klaun - ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list g

Re: gnome-shell magnifier

On 2013-09-10 4:27 AM, Robert Cole wrote: Okay! I Just tested out the bash script idea! It works! Congratulations! And, thanks for sharing this. -- joseph. 'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.' 'K: Right. It's merely computer science.' - J. D. Klaun - ___

Re: gnome-shell magnifier

Hello Robert, There is some information in the GNOME Help application regarding keyboard shortcuts. Launch the "Help" application and search topics using "Set keyboard shorcuts". That page contains general instructions for changing keyboard shortcuts. In particular, there is a section for

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices

From the W3C website (http://www.w3.org): " The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) has published an updated Working Draft of WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices: An author's guide to understanding and implementing Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It provides detailed advice and exam

Re: Atk focus change capture fail. Why?

Tal, Mike Gorse wrote: ... You need to use AT-SPI (ie, at-spi2-core, and perhaps pyatspi2 if you want to use Python) ... There is example code for tracking the focus in the pyatsip2 project. Look for the "examples" folder, and "magFocusTracker.py" file inside that folder. Hope that's us

Re: Low-Vision user observation

Hi Bryen, I'm still digesting your full message. With respect to cross hairs, you wrote: 2. The crosshairs option is nice, but I found it distracting for the most part. I suppose in all fairness if I stuck to it, after a while I'd get used to it. It was a lot easier to locate my mouse pointe

Re: Adventures in calling Atspi from JavaScript

Mike wrote: Hi Joseph, 1. Registering 'object:text-caret-moved' always results in an error. The actual error is garbled, containing non-printable characters. Here is what I get: > Window manager warning: Log level 16: Atspi: Adding match: Interface name > 'org.a11y.atspi.Event.object'

Re: Adventures in calling Atspi from JavaScript

Hi Mike, Thanks for your suggestions -- it improved things a bit. See below. 1. Registering 'object:text-caret-moved' always results in an error. The actual error is garbled, containing non-printable characters. Here is what I get: > Window manager warning: Log level 16: Atspi: Adding matc

Re: Adventures in calling Atspi from JavaScript

Ale wrote: I need to queue the events to handle it later to don't interrupt the system. I didn't notice that with accerciser. When the delay happens in my code, it feels like something is being processed synchronously where it shouldn't be. I think python programs (accerciser) get asynchron

Adventures in calling Atspi from JavaScript

All, I've been implementing a JavaScript object for use within GNOME Shell that tracks the keyboard focus and the caret. I am using GObjectIntrospection to communicate between JavaScript and AT-SPI. Some things are working, but others aren't. Descriptions of the problems are given below. If y

Re: Keybindings for the Magnifier

Hi Robert, I am curious as to whether or not it is possible to set the magnifier's keybindings (turn on/off, zoom in/out) by setting keys via the command line. Yes, but it can be dangerous in that it's possible to put the system into an unstable state. Using the System Settings is the safe

Re: GNOME Shell magnifier and Keybindings

Hi Robert, You wrote: I was just curious as to whether or not it is possible (or would be possible) to use the scroll wheel on my mouse in combination with a key on my keyboard (e.g. the Control key) to zoom in or out on the magnifier. Anything is possible :-). And, this is a no-brainer.

Re: Reminder: 2012/04/12 ***16:00 CET*** a11y weekly meeting

If it helps, here is the local time of the meeting for various cities: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20120412T16&p1=48 -- joseph. 'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.' 'K: Right. It's merely computer science.' - J. D. Klaun -

Re: Magnifier DBus interface vs GSettings

Hi Patrick, You wrote: I would have argued the other way and gone for: magnifier needs the accessibility bus, so control via dbus rather than require some desktop schema to be installed. You make a good point. A similar point was madewhen we discussed the issue at a recent (Thu Mar 29) GNOME

Re: GNOME Shell Magnifier Inverse (Negative) Feature

Hi Robert, API, On 02-Apr-2012, Piñeiro wrote: On 03/30/2012 08:36 PM, Robert Cole wrote: Hello, everyone. Hi Robert, Joseph is the best one to answer some of your questions, but meanwhile I will answer the others. I have recently begun to exclusively use Fedora on my desktop system. I am n

Magnifier DBus interface vs GSettings

There is a mismatch between some of the magnifier's GSettings and the magnifier DBus interface. An example is enabling and disabling the magnifier. It's currently possible to do this through GSettings, and via the DBus setActive() method. This can lead to an inconsistency if the GSetting is

Re: Reminder (and check your clocks!): 2012/03/15 15:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

Joanie, API (et al.) My action from last week was to more fully outline a possible WOP project with respect to automated ARIA testing. Here is the article: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/AriaAutomatedTesting -- joseph. 'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.' 'K: Right. It's mere

Re: Reminder: 2012/02/02 15:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

At the risk of seeming disrespectful to Punxsutawney Phil [1], Shameless plug for Wiarton Willie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiarton_Willie we should probably get back on track starting tomorrow, at 15:00 UTC in #a11y-meeting. We should see how many of us see our shadows... -- jose

Re: GNOME Shell Magnifier Advanced Settings and Testing

I wrote: Yes, that's the source code, but it's not really the thing to read to find out the settings. That's like looking for a needle in a haystack . The preferences (the GSettings) are listed at the beginning [6] of the GNOME Shell Magnifier page that you cited, although it is a technical

Re: Gnome testing

Hub wrote: Fedora runs nice in VirtualBox, albeit I never successfully run it with gnome-shell and ended up on the fallback mode back then. Follow these directions for VB. Works like a charm: http://www.sysprobs.com/install-fedora-16-virtualbox-guest-additions-get-working-gnome-shell-inside-

Re: GNOME Shell Magnifier Advanced Settings and Testing

I wrote: Yes, that's the source code, but it's not really the thing to read to find out the settings. That's like looking for a needle in a haystack . The preferences (the GSettings) are listed at the beginning [6] of the GNOME Shell Magnifier page that you cited, although it is a technica

Re: GNOME Shell Magnifier Advanced Settings and Testing

Hi Robert, Thanks very much for your input! I saw some screenshots of a more advanced dialog for magnifier settings on the GNOME Shell magnification page [1]. I assume you are talking about the " Magnifier Preferences Dialog" section [1]. You might also want to track the work on the proposed

Re: Can the community work with Gnome to improve GTK+ a11y?

Peter, Christian, On 12-01-05 11:31 AM, Christian Hofstader wrote: I generally agree with Peter here… I think the user agent, Orca in this case, can and should provide augmentations to the overall user experience. Items that do not gain focus ordinarily need to be presented to users with vis

Re: Can the community work with Gnome to improve GTK+ a11y?

All, Here are a couple of issues related to the accessibility of disabled menu items. A similar problem occurs in tool bars with disabled tool bar buttons. In some toolkits, keyboard-only users cannot navigate (put focus) on disabled buttons. The rationale for that behaviour is that sighte

Re: Frist Impressions of GNOME 3's Zoom Feature

Hi Robert, I decided that I should try out the Zoom feature as well to see if the lag which I mentioned in previous e-mails existed there as well. I am glad to say that it did not exist. You beat me :-). I had tested something similar to your original scenario, and confirmed the lag. My te

Re: GNOME 3/Shell Magnifier(s)

described. Features in development include inverse video, brightness and contrast adjustments, and focus/caret tracking. More information can be found on the magnifier's wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification Thanks for your interest. Hope this helps. -- Joseph Scheuh

Re: GNOME High Contrast Icon Theme

Hi Meg, meg ford wrote (14-Jul-2011): Hi, I have one last question about High Contrast. Jakub Steiner and Lapo Calamandrei have suggested that icons from the Symbolic Icon theme be used in High Contrast (see Figures 8 and 9,HERE

Re: GNOME High Contrast Icon Theme

Hi Meg, You wrote: Joseph// Scheuhammer has agreed to show these drafts to the Occupational Therapist who works on site with him. Here is what she had to say: The high contrast figures would work best for a low vision user. Figures 4 & 5 can be easily seen when the colour scheme of

FYI: jQuery ARIA Hackathon July 2011

All, There has been a lot of distributed accessibility work within the jQuery community recently. To further this, the IDRC at OCAD University [1], in conjunction with jQueryUI [2], is hosting a face-to-face "ARIA and Accessibility" hackathon at the IDRC to bring together everyone who has bee

Re: Gnome3 and Vinux: Interaction is needed

On 29/04/11 10:57 AM, Piñeiro wrote: > On 04/29/2011 04:37 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: >> API wrote: >> >>> ... as "Classic GNOME" will be the fallback for ... people looking for >>> a better accessibility support, >> Just noting that in "Cl

Re: Gnome3 and Vinux: Interaction is needed

API wrote: > ... as "Classic GNOME" will be the fallback for ... people looking for > a better accessibility support, Just noting that in "Classic GNOME", the GNOME Shell magnifier will not be available. (Perhaps that's obvious...) By "better support", do you mean things like keyboard access to

Gnome a11y testing distro, on a stick

I'm looking for advice. I have been unable to build a bootable USB based on the a11y testing distro at http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/TestingDistro; specifically the #1 spin, "gnome3-a11y-1.0-i686.iso". I can, however, make a bootable USB out of the "Made of Easy" iso at http://downloa

Re: Ideas needed!

Hey Bryen, I have some screen shots of the latest alpha version of the GNOME Shell magnifier, showing inverse video. You can find them linked from here: http://aegis.idrc.ocad.ca/uploads/images/magScreenShots.html Let me know if you need anything else. Hope this helps. -- joseph 'I had

Re: Ideas needed!

Hey Bryen, Bryen wrote: Great idea. Can you point me to where to find those? Peter replied: ... you can at least run the GNOME Shell magnifier (if not the not-yet-integrated magnifier control panel), described at http://blog.crozat.net/2011/01/gnome-3-live-cd-usb-test-image.html The ve

Re: 2010/11/04 15:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

Tomorrow 2010/11/04 at 15:00 UTC weekly a11y meeting. (Partial) Regrets. I have an earlier commitment tomorrow. If I can, I'll attend, but only for the last half hour. -- joseph 'Clown control to Mao Tse Tung.' - D. Bowie (misheard lyric) - _

Re: Accessibility Preferences UI

On 14/10/10 3:31 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/NewPreferencesGUI What's the status of this? Is this close to a final design? Is there an implementation of this yet? I would like to start documenting some of the basic accessibility features in the new desktop help

Re: Accessibility Preferences UI

On 14/10/10 3:31 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/NewPreferencesGUI What's the status of this? Is this close to a final design? Is there an implementation of this yet? I would like to start documenting some of the basic accessibility features in the new desktop help

Re: Wiki page outlining latest magnifier framework

Hi Carlos, Thank you very much for your input. I'll take this into account the next time I edit the wiki page. Carlos wrote: Hi, Related to the issues: * Managed: this property was never used AFAIK. The intent of this was to notify the magnifier to not map the ZoomRegion, because the clie

Wiki page outlining latest magnifier framework

All, First off, it was really great to meet you all in person at the AEGIS hackfest last week. Based on our meeting (Frenando, Alejandro, and Joseph), I have put together a wiki page defining the new magnifier framework API. I think I've captured what we discussed, but feel free to look it

Re: Travel Tips for Going to Spain

On 27/09/10 4:36 PM, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: You do not need a power adapter for most laptops - just a plug adapter.Most laptops will support 220 volts (but always look to be sure!) The other email gave the plug adapters to use. They are available in most any airport in Europe Tha

Re: Travel Tips for Going to Spain

I thought of another issue, and just in case someone didn't think of it... People coming from North America will need power adaptors for their laptops or other electrical appliances. Just in case, does anyone know what kind of adaptor is needed? I have access to a "universal adaptor", but I

Re: 2010/09/23 15:00 UTC a11y weekly meeting

All, I would like to add a hopefully quick agenda item about the AEGIS conference and GNOME a11y posters. I've just been contacted by one of the AEGIS conference organizers asking: Joseph, could you please provide us with the GNOME posters layout by end of tomorrow-Friday, Sep 24th (or at l

Posters section in AEGIS hackfest wiki page.

At the gnome-a11y meeting about a week and a half ago (not the last one, but the one prior to it), I was tasked with adding a section for AEGIS poster presentations. I added the section, and information regarding two posters. What I keep forgetting to do is announce this section to the maili

Re: Information on Caribou

I was not able to find any documents on the requirements and/or the design of Caribou. Do these exist and if so, could someone please direct me? I'm not sure it this is what you are looking for, but here is GNOME's wiki page on Caribou: http://live.gnome.org/Caribou It mentions that bugzi

Re: Meeting times, where to find it

So, opinions, thoughts, alternative solutions? I prefer the google calendar solution, although I don't know how to set it up. I currently have a "GNOME A11y Team Meeting" entry in my local work iCal, and it's set to alternate between the two times. It also alerts me on the weeks when it's

Re: Comparing gs-mag dbus with g-mag dbus

On 05/08/10 3:45 PM, Fernando Herrera wrote: Hi Joseph, and thanks for this work! No problem. Glad it's useful. shiftContentsTo(): { name: 'shiftContentsTo', inSignature: 'ii', outSignature: 'b' }, Changes to gs-mag dbus: No change, but *needs to be added to gnome-mag*. What should this fu

Comparing gs-mag dbus with g-mag dbus

I've compared the interface definitions of gs-mag dbus [1] with g-mag dbus [2a, 2b], and made some notes. For now, I'm only comparing those objects/methods that gs-mag implements. There is a whole set of methods that gs-mag doesn't even attempt yet. There was talk of using properties, but I

Re: Important: If you need a travel sponsorship from the Foundation for AEGIS, you must apply now!

On 22/07/10 11:05 AM, Piñeiro wrote: Well, taking that into account, should we include register fees as something to be funded, along travel expenses? FWIW, I did. I put it under the "Other costs" category in the application form. -- joseph 'Clown control to Mao Tse Tung.' - D. Bowie (

Re: Important: If you need a travel sponsorship from the Foundation for AEGIS, you must apply now!

Never mind me... I wrote (please ignore): the fee for developers, researchers, and members of the public was €161 But Peter just corrected with: So for folks who are wanting to attend the conference as well as the hackfest, plan on spending €54 €54 it is. Thanks Peter. -- joseph 'Cl

Re: Important: If you need a travel sponsorship from the Foundation for AEGIS, you must apply now!

On 22/07/10 4:14 AM, Piñeiro wrote: This is a good question, I didn't realize it. In other kind of conferences the speakers are not required to pay to register themselves, but not sure here. Peter Korn will know the answer. Peter? Peter provided an answer. I had noted that the fee for develo

Re: Important: If you need a travel sponsorship from the Foundation for AEGIS, you must apply now!

On 15/07/10 3:04 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: As discussed at today's a11y team meeting [1], if you are planning on attending the AEGIS Conference and Hackfest [2] and if you will require sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation in order to do so, you need to apply now. ... the deadline is one week f

Re: [Accessibility] Re: [Kde-accessibility] focus tracking

On 07/07/10 7:54 PM, Jason White wrote: Also, I don't understand what problem you're trying to solve. Magnification relies on Orca now to provide focus details; what practical problem does this introduce, and might there be other ways of solving it that don't involve separating out code and funct

Re: [Accessibility] Re: [Kde-accessibility] focus tracking

On 06/07/10 7:45 PM, Jason White wrote: Joseph Scheuhammer wrote: > In closing, here is something of a proposal: the machinery that > Orca uses to track keyboard focus is not inherent to a screen > reader. Other processes could well make use of Orca's focus > tracki

Re: [Kde-accessibility] focus tracking

Hi all, On 01/07/10 3:53 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: Ok, thanks all for the responses. A couple of questions if you don't mind, to check I understand this properly: - AT-SPI does not have a way of tracking focus for magnification purposes? - So Gnome-Mag has developed an API for this, but it's cu

Re: [Kde-accessibility] focus tracking

On 30/06/10 6:02 AM, Piñeiro wrote: But, other people involved (Mike Gorse, Joanie) can confirm/complete all this. I'll confirm: What your wrote is a good summary of the situation. Thanks! In terms of "complete all this": GS-mag supports another route for controlling its settings, namel

Re: [orca-devel] New gnomegoal: port PyGTK apps to PyGI

To answer my own question: it looks like a combination of "yes" and "no". There are definitely changes in how to imports modules. For example, > import gtk# old > from from gi.repository import Gtk # new Also, the name of the module is now in upper case. Thus, one no longer writes "gt

Re: [orca-devel] New gnomegoal: port PyGTK apps to PyGI

A new gnome goal appeared, about migrate apps using the static bindings PyGTK to the new PyGI, based on gobject introspection. A hopefully straight forward question: Does this mean the python/GTK API remains the same, while the stuff underneath contains all the change resides? Or, is th

Re: DBus interface for magnifiers

Sorry Carlos, and everyone else. I've been up to my ears in getting the magnifier code into GnomeShell, and haven't had time to look at much else. The good news is that as of today (May 11), GnomeShell has a built in magnifier. Whoohoo! So, now I can get back to further developing the magni

DBus interface for magnifiers

All, Joanie, Carlos, Will, and I have been discussing what the DBus API should be for a gnome magnifier service, as well as trying to figure the appropriate roles for DBus vs. GConf (or, GSettings, in the future). The following is my thoughts as a reply to both Joanie and Carlos. At last we

Looking for user questions about magnification

Hi, I am working on the Aegis project[1], specifically on adding magnification functionality to GnomeShell[2]. I've recently been asked to come up with a number of focus group questions asking what magnifier users want and/or need. I'm predominantly a programmer, and not a magnifier user, s

Re: New #a11y Meeting times proposed!

So, to summarize, I gather the meeting times are now: Meetings flip every two weeks on Thursdays (not Fridays anymore.) Week 1: UTC 6:00 Week 2: UTC 15:00 Week 3: UTC 6:00 Week 4: UTC 15:00 I'll be at the 15:00 UTC meetings on a regular basis. As for 6:00 UTC (= 2:00 am my time), I'll be

Re: GNOME 2.30: go stable or go cutting edge?

I tend to be conservative: if users want/need/expect stability (and what user doesn't expect that?), then it would be unacceptable if they ended up with an inconsistent, buggy, crashy, experience. But, I am out of my depth, so let me ask questions. Has GNOME has been in this position before?

Re: Reschedule weekly meetings

Hi Will So...please let me know what days and times work best for you. For next week: Mon afternoon (UTC 17:30-23:00) Tue afternoon (UTC 17:30-23:00) Wed - unavailable Thu available most of the day (UTC 15:00-20:00) Fri available all day (UTC 15:00-23:00) -- joseph 'What did one snowm