Re: api to indicate where an AT user is operating

Thanks Trevor.

To Matt:
Is it fine enough granularity Matt? Do you think you have to highlight an
object you are looking at?

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger



From:	Trevor Saunders <[email protected]>
To:	[email protected],
Date:	01/16/2012 02:41 PM
Subject:	Re: api to indicate where an AT user is operating
Sent by:	[email protected]



On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 02:24:46PM -0600, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote:
>
> I was on a call today with an ATV and it was requested whether if there
> would be support for an accessibility API That would allow an assistive
> technology to tell an application, such as a browser, to render on the
> display where the AT User was operating such as in the case of their
> operating the virtual buffer.  Typically, browser manufacturers do not
want

Since you discuss virtual buffers I'll guess we are talking about
windows here.  So why can't they use IAccessible2::scrollTo() and
IAccessible2::scrollToPoint()?  Which we implement.

I'd be willing to consider implementing other API's for changing
what's displayed, but I tend to think the IA2 or other a11y interface
list is the appropriate place to discuss adding new APIs.

Trev


> in assistive technology having control over what might be rendered in the
> browser so  I don't know whether this will garner a positive response.
That
> said, I agree to post the request to this discussion. I look forward to
> your response.
>
> thanks,
> Rich
>
>
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