Bug 158392

Summary:	Add more (and custom) roles
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Larry Weiss <lweiss>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	steve_northover
Version:	3.3	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
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Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	158836

Description Larry Weiss

2006-09-22 18:21:59 EDT

Linux (RHEL 5 or FC5) ATK defines accessible roles that have no equivalent in the org.eclipse.swt.accessibility.ACC class. (See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/atk/AtkObject.html#AtkRole.) Custom widget authors (including Draw2d and GMF authors) need the ability to expose these existing roles as well as an ability to define custom roles. (See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/atk/AtkObject.html#atk-role-register.)

The mechanism to implement this functionality on Windows will be added soon.

Comment 1 Carolyn MacLeod

2012-05-03 10:29:04 EDT

1 new role was added in 3.5, and 22 new roles were added in 3.6.
Any remaining roles not yet supported will only be added on an as-needed
basis, and only if they are cross-platform.

The ability to add custom roles would only be added if this functionality was
required by an actual customer.

Updated links:
http://developer.gnome.org/atk/stable/AtkObject.html#AtkRole
http://developer.gnome.org/atk/stable/AtkObject.html#atk-role-register

Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod

2012-06-19 16:09:10 EDT

Closing. Please open a new bug with specifics if additional roles are required.