[Accessibility-ia2] accessibleWithCaret

[Pete Brunet]

Hi Rich, That text for accessibleWithCaret is misleading:
Propose: performant way to get caret offset within direct hypertext
accessible containing the caret.

The use case (from
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/accessibility-ia2/2010-December/001311.html)
1. GetGUIThreadInfo().  // Get the HWND
2. AccessibleObjectFromWindow
3. Focused MSAA object = accObj->get_accFocus().
4. Traverse down through the FF a11y tree to find the object with the caret.

The problem presents itself because FF represents its text in
hierarchical manner and the top level focused object can have a
significantly deep tree of accessibles.

A better synopsis might have been:
Propose: performant way to get caret offset in an accessible when the
accessible is deeply nested under a parent focused object.

Pete

On 2/24/12 9:45 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> What is the point of saying
> (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/IA2_1.3#Object_attribute):
>
>  Return hypertext accessible in subtree of the accessible and caret
>    * offset within it.
>
> Aren't you just asking for the accessible in the subtree with a caret in
> it? I am not following the hypertext part.
>
> Rich
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
>
>
>
> From:	Pete Brunet <pete at a11ysoft.com>
> To:	IA2 List <Accessibility-ia2 at lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
> Date:	02/23/2012 08:49 PM
> Subject:	[Accessibility-ia2] Please review these three proposals
> Sent by:	accessibility-ia2-bounces at lists.linuxfoundation.org
>
>
>
> These three proposals look OK to me.  Please let me know if you see any
> issues:
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/IA2_1.3#Object_attribute
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/IA2_1.3#Text_attributes
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/IA2_1.3#Hyperlinks_from_hypertext
>
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