Re: How to know if a11y is activated

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Well...

There's a gsettings key that determines whether atk-bridge gets loaded 
(org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility). But shouldn't this be 
a user preference somewhere, if it isn't going to always be enabled? Using 
toolkit-accessibility as a test doesn't really seem like the right way to 
go about it. If accessibility is enabled for some other reason (running 
ldtp, for instance), or if in the future it is enabled by default, then 
the test will break.

I'm curious as to where the original discussion happened / if others have 
a preference for not wanting the behavior. The tabular position of a file 
isn't really important when files are just listed in order. Even if a 
screen reader user might want to know when moving to the next row, the 
screen reader could potentially query the new cell location if the 
container accessible implements AtkTable, and give the user an indication 
of being on a new row if a preference for that behavior is set. So I don't 
personally see a reason not to just always enable the behavior, but it 
would be good to see if anyone else reading this has an opinion one way or 
the other.

-Mike G-

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Nelson Benítez León wrote:

> Hi,
> back in 2008, nautilus implemented an enhanced keyboard
> navigation,only activated when a11y was off, because this new
> navigation would confuse visually impared people, details in
> http://bugs.gnome.org/526802 . Now in gnome3 the condition that
> checked if a11y was 'off' or 'on' is always returning 'on' so the
> enhanced keyboard navigation is lost. The condition is the following:
>
> a11y_is_off = ATK_IS_NO_OP_OBJECT (gtk_widget_get_accessible
> (GTK_WIDGET (nautilus_container)))
>
> so, is this the right way to check if accesibility is activated on a widget?
>
> if that is true, does that mean that a11y is activated by default on
> gnome 3? or is this distro-dependent?.. I'm in fedora 16 right now..
>
>
> Sorry if my questions are obvious I dont know much about a11y I just
> want to fix the nautilus regression[1]..
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660881
>
> Thank you!
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