Hi Frank:

>> The reliance upon the notification area for the sole interaction with 
>> a service is a bummer.  Ideally, there would be some other mechanism, 
>> such as a menu item under the System menu.
> WRT the DDU, there is one now. It will bring up the same window as the 
> notification would.

I think this is probably OK, but it would be great to sit down with the 
DDU GUI writers to how them how to test for accessibility.

>> However, as long as one can interact with the object via the 
>> keyboard, the user can have some level of access.  So, for the NWAM 
>> GUI:
>>
>> 1) The notification message should result in an accessibility event 
>> being emitted.  Orca can pick these up and at least read them.  
>> (Though we should test with NWAM to be sure).
> Does the notification have to code the accessibility event or is this 
> (thought) to be built into the notification mechanism.

The notification mechanism itself emits the event, so we should be OK 
here as well (I hope).  I haven't looked at the notification mechanism 
in a while, but I recall it used to be somewhat simple text.  If it has 
turned into a more complex beast like tooltips have, then we might have 
issues.

Will


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