On Thursday 03 February 2011, Ted Gould wrote: > Hello, > > For an intro see the mail with the (0/3) in the subject line. > > One of the projects we're doing is to try and make Unity more > accessible. To that end we'd like to add properties to add accessible > labels for the icons that could be given to screen readers. We're > planning on issuing warnings if an icon is set without an accessible > label, it would be great if the KDE object could do the same. Here are > the properties that we're thinking about: IconAccessibleLabel and > AttentionAccessibleLabel. They should be strings describing the > icons/movies, localized and change with the icon. An example would be > "Battery 45%". > > --Ted > > PS - I don't think that OverlayAccessibleLabel makes sense, but I'd love > to hear people's comments on that.
This is a really good idea, let's analyze it. Basically, what the normal icon, the attention icon and the overlay indicate is a status, someting descriptive about what's going on (let's say battery 45%) now, we have a text representation, and that is what's written in the tooltip. this may or may not be enough for a screenreader to represent it textually... so, we could have a staus for "normal" and "active", always exposed to the bus, or a status text that is always the current, that is updated from the application, (and also when the icon status changes from normal to requestingattention for instance) so a TextualStatus property could be enough... ideas? Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
