Re: WebKit external dependency update

[Don Scorgie <Don Scorgie org>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:33 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Alp:
> 
> Way to go -- you guys rock for taking a11y seriously.  Before we 
> declare victory, however, how can we take this for a test ride?  I'd 
> like to see this tested with GOK and Orca at the least.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Will
> 
> On Jun 12, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> 
> > Le lundi 02 juin 2008, à 16:33 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> >> Hi Alp,
> >>
> >> Le dimanche 01 juin 2008, à 14:05 +0100, Alp Toker a écrit :
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> WebKit/GTK+ now has AT-SPI accessibility support using ATK as 
> >>> requested
> >>> by the Yelp developers, which was laid out as a requirement for the
> >>> external dependency. We hooked it up to support some ARIA 
> >>> capabilities
> >>> and worked to improve keyboard navigation, features that were listed 
> >>> as
> >>> desirables by the GNOME accessibility team. There's also now some
> >>> support for accessible text editing via AT-SPI in preparation for the
> >>> expected migrations from GtkHTML. Accessibility work will be ongoing 
> >>> in
> >>> trunk but I believe we're ready for testing as part of the 
> >>> development
> >>> release.
> >>
> >> Cool to hear that! I'd love to hear from a11y people if they're happy
> >> with all that.
> >
> > Ping?

Yelp now has a fairly workable patch sitting in bugzilla [1] which I'm
relatively happy to commit.

There are a couple of issues I would consider somewhat serious.  1.
There's no caret option I can find in WebKit.  2. There's an issue with
high-contrast inverse themes where the text becomes unreadable [2].

Otherwise, I'll leave it to the a11y crew to assess whether it's
acceptable.

I do wonder what the GNOME position is for html engines for 2.24.  Are
we planning on having webkit and mozilla as external dependencies, or
one or t'other, or saying "either-or"?

Cheers
Don

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512827
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19486