RE: off-list wb!! Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Latest LibreOffice and Java access Bridge

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 19:32 +0000, V Stuart Foote wrote:
> Exactly! But since there are continuing issues with the UNO
> Accessibility API, taking time no for reworking it (fixing short falls
> for NSAccessibility and AT/ATK) while conceiving and implementing a
> replacement Windows bridge (not using IBMs IAccessible2 "contribution"
> when/if it finally is made) should result in better AT support across
> all platforms.

        So - incidentally - a positive step we've taken in 4.0 here is to
un-publish the UNO accessibility API - and remove it from the ODK - that
frees us up to substantially change / improve that interface which
(after all) should be internal anyway - an implementation detail of the
interface between the core and the platform's a11y toolkit.

        Stuart - do you have a good grasp on what is missing in those
interfaces ? when I looked one of the most glaring things was having
only a translated name for each widget and not a programmatic one (in
parallel - nearly always the same un-translated name). That'd be a
reasonably easy thing to fix, and would improve things for atk I guess -
but it's been a while since I dug here.

        Also - rolling that out would be almost an easy-hack I'd be happy to
mentor.

        ATB,

                Michael.

-- 
michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot


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