Re: Name of Accessible (Not the Label Name)

[Evan Yan <Evan Yan Sun COM>]

Udayan Singh wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been using "cspi" (i.e. at-spi) library in my application.
> Scenario is that I am using HTML programming on web page and the
> application is executing in GNOME environment (GTK+ is for UI and C
> Programming).
>
> So the web page has something like this :
>
>
> .....
>
> <p>
> <label for="Label2">Label2:</label>
> <input type="text" name="Lb2" id="Label2" value="Some Text" />
> </p>
>
>   
[...]
> Now if i click on the text box that Label2 will have then the output
> that I get is :
>
> Name of event's source : Label2
>   
I think that's the correct behavior.
"Lb2" is the programming name of the textfield, not visible to users,
while "Label2" labeled the textfield, is just what's meaningful to end
users.
So from accessibility's aspect, we should expose "Label2" but not "Lb2"
to users.

-Evan
> ................................................
> But I want to get the "name" i.e. "Lb2".
>
> Which API should I use to get this done ? Any inputs would be great.
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Regards,
>
> Udayan
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