Bug 158392 - Add more (and custom) roles
Summary: Add more (and custom) roles
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux-GTK
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Carolyn MacLeod CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Blocks: 158836
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Reported: 2006-09-22 18:21 EDT by Larry Weiss CLA
Modified: 2012-06-19 16:09 EDT (History)
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Description Larry Weiss CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2012-06-19 16:09:10 EDT 
Closing. Please open a new bug with specifics if additional roles are required.