[Accessibility-ia2] Missing info for link activated and link selected events

[Carolyn MacLeod]

Don't know if it's helpful, but ATK defines these 2 events as follows:

- link-selected is an AtkHypertext signal, and it has a hyperlink index 
argument:
        
http://library.gnome.org/devel/atk/stable/AtkHypertext.html#AtkHypertext-link-selected 

        (this would be the IA2 equivalent of Pete's suggestion to provide 
IAHypertext::selectedLink)

- link-activated is an AtkHyperlink signal, and it does not have an 
argument (doesn't need one):
        
http://library.gnome.org/devel/atk/stable/AtkHyperlink.html#AtkHyperlink-link-activated 

        (this would be the IA2 equivalent of Pete's suggestion to require 
that the event should be fired from the object implementing IAHyperlink)

Carolyn




From:
Pete Brunet <pete at a11ysoft.com>
To:
IA2 List <Accessibility-ia2 at lists.freestandards.org>
Cc:
Accessibility at lists.freestandards.org
Date:
05/03/2010 06:30 PM
Subject:
[Accessibility-ia2] Missing info for link activated and link    selected 
events
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Carolyn MacLeod noticed that there is a problem with these two events:

IA2_EVENT_HYPERTEXT_LINK_ACTIVATED  One of the links associated with the 
hypertext object has been activated.
IA2_EVENT_HYPERTEXT_LINK_SELECTED   One of the links associated with the 
hypertext object has been selected. 

1)  There is no information provided to indicate which link was activated 
or selected.  This is because WinEvents doesn't provide event info.  We 
fixed a similar problem by providing IATable/IATable2::modelChange and 
IAText::new/oldText.  To fix this problem we either could provide 
IAHyperText::activatedLink and IAHyperText::selectedLink or require that 
the event should be fired from the object implementing IAHyperLink rather 
than IAHyperText.  Are there any issues with the latter?

2)  What does it mean for a link to be selected?  Is that of any use?

I am ccing the a11y group as one of the readers there may be familiar with 
the second issue.

Thanks, Pete

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