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     <relation type="labelled-by" target="label4"/>
 
     <relation type="labelled-by" target="label4"/>
 
   </accessibility>
 
   </accessibility>
</object>
 
 
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<object class="GtkToggleButton" id="togglebutton1">
 
  <property name="visible">True</property>
 
  <property name="can_focus">True</property>
 
  <property name="has_focus">True</property>
 
  <property name="is_focus">True</property>
 
  <property name="receives_default">True</property>
 
  <property name="active">True</property>
 
  <property name="draw_indicator">True</property>
 
 
  </object>
 
  </object>
  

Revision as of 10:54, 20 October 2011

Accessibility support

Links

  • AEGIS acronym stands for Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards.
  • Possibility project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating groundbreaking open source software for persons with disabilities.

Gramps

Gramps aims to provide the best accessibility support. Unfortunatly, all parts of the interface have not been always tested for persons with disabilities. Gramps team try to do its best for a complete accessibility support.

Into Glade

  • Gtk label

A GtkLabel with mnemonic support will automaticaly generate accessibility keys on linked GtkEntry and UndoableEntry fields. Remember that Gramps also uses custom widgets like StyledTextEditor and ValidatableMaskedEntry, which do not always have relation with a GtkLabel.

  • Toggle buttons and Icons on toolbar

Gramps often uses GtkToggleButtons and alone GtkPixmap (image without label), this excludes blind people and generates a poor interface for accessibility.

Rules for images and buttons

  1. set a name for a button with image
  2. set a description for all images and icons
<object class="GtkButton" id="date_edit">
  <property name="visible">True</property>
  <property name="can_focus">True</property>
  <property name="receives_default">True</property>
  <property name="has_tooltip">True</property>
  <property name="tooltip_text" translatable="yes">Invoke date editor</property>
  <property name="relief">none</property>
  <child internal-child="accessible">
    <object class="AtkObject" id="date_edit-atkobject">
      <property name="AtkObject::accessible-name" translatable="yes">Date edition</property>
    </object>
  </child>
  <child>
    <object class="GtkImage" id="image2264">
      <property name="visible">True</property>
      <property name="icon_name">gramps-date</property>
      <child internal-child="accessible">
        <object class="AtkObject" id="image2264-atkobject">
          <property name="AtkObject::accessible-description" translatable="yes">Date edition</property>
        </object>
      </child>
    </object>
  </child>
</object>

Rules for labels and buttons

  • a label for others widgets should use mnemonic_widget() or a relation
<object class="GtkLabel" id="label2">
  <property name="visible">True</property>
  <property name="xalign">0</property>
  <property name="label" translatable="yes">La_bel:</property>
  <property name="use_underline">True</property>
  <property name="justify">center</property>
  <property name="mnemonic_widget">related_label_entry_name</property>
</object>
<object class="GtkButton" id="button1">
  <property name="visible">True</property>
  <property name="can_focus">True</property>
  <property name="receives_default">True</property>
  <accessibility>
    <relation type="labelled-by" target="label4"/>
  </accessibility>
</object>

Rules for entry

  • set a name is there is no linked mnemonic_widget() on a label
<object class="StyledTextEditor" id="styled_text1">
  <property name="visible">True</property>
  <property name="can_focus">True</property>
  <child internal-child="accessible">
    <object class="AtkObject" id="styled_text1-atkobject">
      <property name="AtkObject::accessible-name" translatable="yes">Styled Text Editor</property>
    </object>
  </child>
</object>

Into python

Sample

# mark the root of this window with its PID so we can easily identify it
# as this app
root_atk = atk.get_root()
root_atk.set_description(str(os.getpid()))
label_acc = label_widget.get_accessible()
entry_acc = entry.get_accessible()
label_acc.add_relationship(atk.RelationType.LABEL_FOR, entry_acc)
entry_acc.add_relationship(atk.RelationType.LABELLED_BY, label_acc)

Validate

Accerciser provides a AT-SPI Validator Plugin #5313.

Bugs and feature requests

  • #3069: GtkTreeView is very slow / crashes with Assistive Technologies / ATK / a11y enabled
  • #5301: ATK support
  • #5308: Review focus on Editors with toggle buttons
  • #5309: Review ValidatableMaskedEntry for a better Accessibility support