[Accessibility-ia2] Default text attributes in ATK but not IA2

[Pete Brunet]

A use case would help to understand the need for this method.

Pete Brunet
                                                                          
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Peter Korn <Peter.Korn at Sun.COM> 
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06/29/2007 05:49 PM

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Aaron Leventhal <aaronlev at moonset.net>
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Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann at Sun.COM>, Willie Walker 
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Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Default text attributes in ATK but not IA2






Hi Aaron,

I took this up with a bunch of Sun accessibility folks (and I encourage 
you to bring this question to more than the IA2 mailing list).  One 
issue we found with StarOffice/OOo is how to efficiently deal with all 
of the attributes that can appear in an ODF text document (there are ~30 
attributes that can apply to text - do we return all of them? Just those 
that are turned on?).  Having a "default" set is a way to simplify that.

I've cc-ed Malte Timmermann of SO/OOo accessibility, and Willie & Rich 
of the Orca team, as this is an issue they are dealing with at the 
application & AT levels.


Peter

> ATK has a concept of default text attributes, see
> 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/atk/AtkText.html#atk-text-get-default-attributes

>
> How is this handled in the IA2 AccessibleText interface?
>
> Mozilla now has the dilemna of whether to support that method or not, 
> since it's not in both.
>
> - Aaron
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