Re: Finder notifications?
Re: Finder notifications?
- Subject: Re: Finder notifications?
- From: Mike Engber <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:55:08 -0700
Apologies in advance for the vagueness of this reply. I know that for
folks trying to make a living in this area - more concrete answers are
necessary, but I'm not the guy to give them out. I can only tell you
what (little) I know. If you want to complain more loudly, contact me
offline and I can try to come up with some email addrs for you.
We're working on improving our documentation - I don't know if we have
any
app specific documentation plan, but for the Finder, at least, it seems
like
a reasonable idea to have some.
In any event, our documentation is probably going to lag behind for a
while.
There are lots of issues we're still trying to figure out. So this
mailing
list is probably your best resource, but unfortunately I'm not sure
(e.g.
as in I doubt) the app folks are on it.
In general - we try to avoid having apps invent custom accessibility
items.
As I mentioned before, doing so is equivalent to requiring special case
code
in every assistive app - which is a headache for everyone. Undoubtably,
there
will be a couple, but I don't expect a lot.
More likely changes you'll see will be re-representing things in terms
of existing
roles to make them easier to work with. Things like an unstructured
group containing
buttons becoming a list.
In summary, we're making lots of changes to fix deficiencies being
uncovered by
our screen reader effort. The APIs are staying stable (a couple minor
changes),
but there are a fair number of changes in the constants and fair number
in how
they're being used. If you get a seed of the screen reader you can see
a snap
shot, but it's something that continues to evolve.
-ME
On Apr 27, 2004, at 6:11 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
The Panther Finder implements some new accessibility attributes, roles
or
subroles, but I'm not sure I've identified all of them. Is there a
reference
for the Finder's accessibility support, or can someone at Apple
describe it
for us -- including a list of usable items?
I'm particularly interested to know if the Finder issues any
accessibility
notifications.
Are there any other Apple applications that implement custom
accessibility
items?
In general and for the future, how are we supposed to learn about
custom
accessibility roles, subroles, attributes and notifications in
applications,
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