301391 - Include some child values in concatenated accessible names

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

An accessible grid cell, tree item or anything else that is really a container
for other items, may have a child progress bar, slider, textfield, etc. that has
as accessible value.

When providing a name to a screen reader for output, we should append the
accessible value.

That way, for example, an accessible grid cell with a textfield or slider in it
will have that information spoken along with the other contents as the user
navigates to the grid cell.

As a corollary, grid cells themselves don't need to support a value, just the
items within it do.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Other than for items whose values are a URL, use accessible values when concatening an accessible name

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Enter passphrase for key '/home/aleventhal/.ssh/id_dsa':
Checking in accessible/src/base/nsAccessible.cpp;
/cvsroot/mozilla/accessible/src/base/nsAccessible.cpp,v  <--  nsAccessible.cpp
new revision: 1.162; previous revision: 1.161
done
Checking in accessible/src/base/nsAccessible.h;
/cvsroot/mozilla/accessible/src/base/nsAccessible.h,v  <--  nsAccessible.h
new revision: 1.69; previous revision: 1.68
done