[Qt-interest] QtAccessible - anyone else having issues?

Constantin Makshin dinosaur-rus at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Jul 11 02:19:37 CEST 2009


On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:32:01 +0400, David Ching  
<dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote:
> "David Ching" <dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:h386g9$ei8$1 at eple.troll.no...
>> My current issue is that the Windows JAWS screen-reader version  
>> 10.0.1142
>> insists on inserting the word "Edit" in front of all controls, e.g.   
>> when
>> I tab to set focus to an "Unlock" button in my dialog, JAWS reads "EDIT
>> Unlock button".
>
> I removed the text in the "accessibleName" field of the widgets, and now
> JAWS doesn't say "EDIT" any longer, it just reads the text of the  
> control.
> So I guess that's what I want.  But where can I find guidelines on how to
> set the accessibleName, accessibleDescription, etc.?  No one seems to  
> give
> practical info about them.
Documentation for both QWidget::accessibleName() and  
QWidget::accessibleDesciprion() functions refer to  
QAccessibleInterface::text() one, where you can find the purpose of  
different accessibility properties.

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Constantin "Dinosaur" Makshin



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