Re: [g-a-devel] Extensible states (or properties)

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Peter/All:

In mozilla mail (and I presume in Firefox too) you can choose to display 
the "label" column in which case the label is shown in textual form.

I think that text attributes (i.e. Accessibility::Text::getAttributes()) 
can also be used to expose this kind of semantic information (in fact 
the new docs for text attributes recommend this).  The "label" attribute 
could also be exposed on the individual Accessible objects in the email 
list via the Accessible::getAttributes() aka 
atk_object_get/set_attributes() API recently added to ATK.

regards

Bill

Peter Korn wrote:

> ...
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, label information in this case is shown visually 
> *solely* through color.  As such we have a basic accessibility problem 
> we must also solve.  And the solution to this might well provide us 
> with another solution to the question of how to expose this to users 
> of assistive technologies. E.g. if we introduce a new column titled 
> "label", then the object that is shown in that column (in addition to 
> any color coding) might bear the AccessibleName of "Important", 
> "Work", etc.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.