Orca relies on these to keep track of the focus location,
ignoring the focused state. With this change, orca can
once again speak text in entries as I type.
Orca ignores events unless the object is inside an object
with role window and states ACTIVE and SHOWING. To arrange
for this, introduce a new ACTIVE platform state, and set it
for windows when they are active.
This gets orca to be a lot more talkative.
The accessibility bus might not be available, and if it isn't the case,
it means something has failed at a level where the user can't do much
about it. There's no need to emit a critical warning.
The AT-SPI cache interface is used to quickly populate the accessible
objects tree.
The tricky bit is ensuring that we emit change notifications on the
cache only when the cache is available, which means waiting until the
root is asynchronously registered.
The root path is shared by all AtSpiContext instances, so we should
compute it once, instead of every time we instantiate a new context.
This allows us to defer the path creation at realization time and ensure
that we have a registered application.
There's no need to do a lot of work on construction, if we're delaying
all remote work after the GtkATContext is realized.
The GtkAtSpiContext should also keep a reference on the root, and drop
it at unrealize time.
We are doing too much work during the construction phase of the
AT-SPI backend for GtkATContext. Instead of having the AtSpiContext
register itself at construction time, let's add explicit realize
and unrealize operations, and connect the ATContext realization to the
rooting operation of a GtkWidget.
Instead of monitoring the list of toplevels, rely
on GtkWindow updating the HIDDEN state before windows
get removed. This is better, since we still have the
object available when it happens, so we can pass it
to the ATs.
When a toplevel window gets hidden (and not destroyed),
the frontend code set the HIDDEN state, and we need to
emit child notification when that happens.
We need to use gtk_accessible_should_present() whenever we
calculate accessible tree positions, to avoid inconsistencies.
While we are at it, make these helpers usable for finding
the position of accesibles that are now ignored, by not
looking at should_present for the object itself. This will
be relevant when we calculate the position of objects whose
HIDDEN state changes.
Hidden elements are not presented in the accessible
tree, so when then HIDDEN state changes, we should
emit child-added or -removed signals.
This commit does not yet handle all cases (HIDDEN
toplevels or hidden stack pages are not handled),
but it should cover the common case.
The stack page objects were not properly integrated
in the accessible tree - they were appearing as parent
of the pages when navigating up, but not as children
of the stack when navigating down.
The ARIA spec determines the name and description of accessible elements
in a more complex way that simply mapping to a single property; instead,
it will chain up multiple definitions (if it finds them). For instance,
let's assume we have a button that saves a file selected from a file
selection widget; the widgets have the following attributes:
- the file selection widget has a "label" attribute set to the
selected file, e.g. "Final paper.pdf"
- the "download" button has a "label" attribute set to the
"Download" string
- the "download" button has a "labelled-by" attribute set to
reference the file selection widget
The ARIA spec says that the accessible name of the "Download" button
should be computed as "Download Final paper.pdf".
The algorithm defined in section 4.3 of the WAI-ARIA specification
applies to both accessible names (using the "label" and "labelled-by"
attributes), and to accessible descriptions (using the "description" and
"described-by" attributes).
Implement the non-questionable parts of the Component interface
for accessibles which are widgets.
This does not include:
- global coordinates
- setters
- scrolling
- alpha, layers, zorder, and the like
This is a bit different from the way things were done
in GTK 3 - we follow what was done for GtkStackSwitcher,
and make the tab bar carry the GTK_ACCESSIBLE_TAB_LIST
role, and implement Selection there.
This requires some cleanup to remove assumptions
about accessibles being widgets in the backend,
and some code to navigate the tree with these
extra objects in between widgets.
The accessibles for stack pages have the role
GTK_ACCESSIBLE_ROLE_TAB_PANEL. This is the first
step towards implementing the tabs patterns
as described in the aria authoring guidelines
for GtkStack.
Non need to announce the same things for every context
we create, and the path is not really that interesting.
without knowing what it belongs to. I would suggest to
make it visible in the inspector instead, so you can
look it up for the widgets you are interested in.
