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
