Bug 212937 - System dialogs are not very accessible on Mac OS X (Tiger)
Summary: System dialogs are not very accessible on Mac OS X (Tiger)
Status: RESOLVED NOT_ECLIPSE
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.4   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Carolyn MacLeod CLA
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Keywords: accessibility
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Reported: 2007-12-13 16:22 EST by Carolyn MacLeod CLA
Modified: 2008-05-22 14:39 EDT (History)
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Description Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2007-12-13 16:22:15 EST 
None of the SWT Dialog classes are accessible on Mac OS X
(only MessageBox is ok).

This is because they are implemented using Carbon dialogs, and it looks like Apple has not made them accessible.

ColorDialog is not accessible at all.
FontDialog is not accessible at all.
DirectoryDialog, FileDialog, and PrintDialog are partially accessible.
Comment 1 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2007-12-14 03:40:31 EST 
Scott, do you know if there are any plans to make these dialogs accessible?
- PickColor
- FPShowHideFontPanel
- NavCreateGetFileDialog/NavCreatePutFileDialog
- NavCreateChooseFolderDialog
- PMSessionPageSetupDialog/PMSessionPrintDialog

Thanks.
Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2008-05-07 15:49:47 EDT 
On Leopard, these are generally much better.
Comment 3 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2008-05-22 14:39:19 EDT 
Closing as "Not Eclipse" because these dialogs are all system dialogs, and it would be extremely difficult for us to improve their accessibility.
They are pretty good on Leopard, so the problem is mostly just on Tiger.
Changing title to reflect this, and closing.