Bug 158794

Summary: [Accessibility] Add accessible image
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Larry Weiss <lweiss>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: ericwill, steve_northover
Version: 3.3Keywords: accessibility, triaged
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux-GTK   
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Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 158836, 517380    

Description Larry Weiss CLA 2006-09-26 12:06:36 EDT 
The standard native widgets on Linux (RHEL 5 or FC5) that include an image already expose the Image interface with default values. (See http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/atk/AtkImage.html.) But custom widget authors (including Draw2d and GMF authors) need a mechanism to expose images in their custom widgets to native assistive technologies (like a screen reader).

I suggest adding a new AccessibleImageListener to the org.eclipse.swt.accessibility package to allow custom widget authors the ability to expose the rich AtkImage interface. Also, SWT widgets that include an image should allow customization of the image information through this new interface.

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