Re: [g-a-devel] exposing characteristics of dates in a calendar

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

Yes, I think getAttributes should be a proper candidate.

Li

Peter Korn wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Description is designed for human-reading, not for something like a 
> state/status indication.  We have things like Focused, Selected, etc. 
> in AccessibleState.  You can imagine a screen reader script wanting to 
> pick out this info - it would have to parse descriptions for that - 
> the kind of ugliness that was stuffed into MSAA because there weren't 
> other richer ways of conveying needed info.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect & Principal Engineer,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
> > Brad just reminded me that atk objects have a "description", so that 
> > could be a good way to expose a date being today, although, from a 
> > brief look at the code, it seems that Orca currently only reads an 
> > object's description in certain cases.
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Mike Gorse wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We're trying to a11y-enable the SWF MonthCalendar control in Mono.  
> > > It represents "today" by placing a big red circle around the number, 
> > > and we're trying to figure out how to expose that in atk.  I was 
> > > thinking of adding an attribute, to be returned either by 
> > > getAttributes or getRunAttributes, for the object representing 
> > > today, although I don't know if there is a standard attribute that 
> > > we could use for it.  I can't think of a better way to handle it, 
> > > though.  A date can also be bold, so we'll need to add a text 
> > > attribute to handle that case.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any input?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Mike G-
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