Hi Pete and all,
I can't remember whether this has been covered before, but I think
completely replacing IAccessible2 with IAccessible2_2 rather than just
extending will make life very difficult for both AT and app developers
alike. I understand that it'd be nice to clean up IAccessible2 by
removing deprecated methods and parameters. However, the reality is that
IAccessible2_2 isn't going to be implemented by every vendor overnight
and we will still need to deal with IAccessible2 in older versions of
apps even if/once it is. With the current IAccessible2_2 approach, every
vendor will have to implement all of the duplicated methods twice, once
for IAccessible2 and once for IAccessible2_2. It essentially has to be
treated as a new API even though most of the methods are the same.
The deprecated methods in IAccessible2 obviously still need to be marked
as deprecated. I think IAccessible2_2 should just contain the new
methods. Whether it inherits from IAccessible2 is an open question and
doesn't matter as much. I think this would make sense, but I'm happy
either way.
Thoughts?
Jamie
On 8/09/2012 10:43 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:
I am creating IAccessible2_2 to make some changes:
- add accessibleWithCaret
- add relationTargetsOfType
- remove nRelations/relation/relations
- add attribute // return object attribute by name
- remove unused [in] parameter on extendedStates and localizedExtendedStates
I could also change this to remove the unneeded inheritance from
IAccessible, but that might cause too much work for those reworking code
from IAccessible2. Is that true?
Pete
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