Peter Korn wrote: > Hi guys, > > In addition to the discussion about state deprecations, I'd like to > give another kick to the apple cart - keeping/removing some of the > text range constants. I put the letter/word/line/sentence stuff in in > the first place, thinking it'd be useful for several AT use cases and > trusting that the Java parsing support for those chunks would do the > right thing. > > Alas, as Harald points out supporting this generally (especially > sentence) is a right pain. And I have a feeling that screen readers > aren't using this API. So, while we are in a deprecating mood, > perhaps we should deprecate this too? I am not in favor of this removal. It's actually much easier to implement in most cases than "LINE", and we need to keep the old ones around for back-compat guarantees anyhow.
I think a good case can be made for retaining this for 'talking book', page-reading, and similar use cases (i.e. meta clipboard apps that cuts one sentence, etc.) regards Bill > > > Regards, > > Peter Korn > Accessibility Architect, > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [Accessibility-ia2] Suggest remove IA2_TEXT_BOUNDARY_SENTENCE > From: > Harald Fernengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:24:35 +0100 > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi, > > On Thursday 18 January 2007 21:30, Aaron Leventhal wrote: > >> Application internals almost never have support for this, and developers >> will have to do lots of extra work to support it. Very difficult to >> implement given I18N. >> >> I don't believe this is something the AT wants to have the app support >> for just accessibility, because the support will end up being incorrect >> or very different between implementations. >> > > I agree to this, I'd love to see Sentence go. It's not only a nightmare to > implement, it can also lead to obscure bugs with languages that don't have a > concept of "sentence". > > Harald > > _______________________________________________ > Accessibility-ia2 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-ia2 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
