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EXPOSING HTML/DOM VIA ATK/AT-SPI

Contributors

Will Walker, Sun Microsystems
Aaron Leventhal, IBM
Cathy Laws, IBM
Larry Weiss, IBM
Pete Brunet, IBM
Bill Haneman, Sun Microsystems






OVERVIEW

This document specifies how document content can be efficiently exposed using the existing ATK/AT-SPI with minimum modifications to the ATK/AT-SPI specifications. It does so by effectively creating a containment hierarchy based upon a relevant subset of the DOM, where each container has an accessible role which is mapped to AtkRoleTypes from the associated element type (e.g., "html:h1", "html:h2", "html:a", html:p", etc.). Contiguous regions of text typically appear as children that are accessible text objects, and other components (e.g., widgets inside forms) appear as their associated ATK/AT-SPI counterparts. Furthermore, CSS attributes will be represented as AT-SPI text attributes.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Screen reader users need the ability to:
  1. Navigate documents by higher level structure
  2. Know where they are within the current document's structure
Although requirement 1 can be filled by an improved caret navigation capability, that would force synchronization of the screen reader and the document's point of regard, which is not always possible -- for example, the Firefox caret cannot be set within a list of options, for example. The caret browsing system is difficult to maintain because the two can be out of sync.

Furthermore, requirement 2 really means that the screen reader needs to be able to determine document structure anyway.

The current ATK implementation in Gecko  has the following problems, when exposing document structure:
  1. It does not expose headings, quotations, paragraphs, forms, list containers and other structural objects
  2. It is not possible to differentiate sequential or nested lists from each other or even from a single large list. The list items are simply exposed one after the next.
  3. There is confusion about embedded objects. They are currently exposed out of order relative to where they actually exist in the document. Gecko must do extra error-prone work to expose them in the new order, and the AT must unravel that. In addition, the extra work in the Gecko implementation makes code reuse with the Windows/MSAA implementation difficult.
  4. There is confusion about links. In HTML links can span entire paragraphs or a complex set of objects. This is not modeled well with the current system.

PLAN

The basic plan is relatively simple:

  1. Embedded objects: Treat container elements as AtkHypertext containers which can have AtkHyperlink children. Embedded objects, links and other containers will appear as AtkHyperlink children of these containers. Non-link children will not have ATK_ROLE_LINK but will still implement AtkHyperlink, and AtkHyperlink:getURI will be used to expose any associated file locations. [ Aaron: Bill seems to be suggesting hyperlink-URI attribute instead, not sure why at the moment.]  Implement AtkHyperlinks as full-fledged AtkObjects. The technical plan for doing this in Mozilla will involve moving code out of mozilla/accessible/src/atk and into cross-platform classes. We will move a lot of implementation code into classes in the nsAccessible inheritance chain, instead of using delegation.

    Because children can still be walked via other methods, an object with children must only implement AtkHypertext when it:
    1. contains text, and thus the position of the children within that text must be exposed, or
    2. the child contents could be broken into several lines with multiple children, and thus the line breaks must be exposed a start and end offset which contains several children
    3. has a child with a URI, which is exposed via AtkHyperlink. [Aaron: let's skip this test, in the future it will be possible to QI directly to nsIAccessibleHyperlink for this info]
  2. Embedded object characters: When arrowing over the child would move over it in one jump, an embedded object character will be used to mark the child's place, rather than using the accessible name/text in the container's text. In practice, this means that images, image links, image maps  [ Aaron: I'm not sure this is a good rule in the case where the next character is not in the child, but in a grandchild. ]
  3. Tag names (bug 340809): Tag names will be exposed on using an ATK object or text attribute in the form of tag= [namespaceabbrev:tagname]. For example, "tag = html:blockquote". In addition, the closest matching role will be available via the normal role mechanism. A text attribute will be used instead of an object attribute whenever the current object is an AtkText. Possible namespace abbreviations will be "html:", "svg:", "xforms:", "mathml" and "xul". [ Aaron: this proposal currently does not yet provide a way to expose tag names for all elements, since not all elements in the DOM are being exposed. However, if an element turns out to be useful we can change the rules to expose it ]
    [Bill: ANSWER]: We already have Accessibility_Accessible::getAttributes, so this problem is solved in theory. [ Aaron: the nodes we expose are only a subset of the DOM nodes, so it does not completely provide all info about the doc. If the AT wants to traverse the whole DOM and get everything, it can't. Wouldn't call it a P1 though -- may not be necessary to provide entire DOM.]
  4. DOM attributes (covered by bug 340809 above): Attributes will be exposed via ATK object or text attributes such as namespace-abbrev.attrname. Use a period to separate out the namespace, not a colon, otherwise the AT will thing that the attribute name is just the namespace (The AT will receive a single "name:value" string, and parsing the key name logically stops at the first colon). A text attribute will be used instead of an object attribute whenever the current object is an AtkText.
  5. Persistant unique identifiers useful for scripting (covered by bug 340809 above): exposed as object attribute "id = foo", obtained via the id attribute. This should come for free from the DOM attributes work item above.
  6. CSS attributes (covered by bug 340809 above): CSS attributes will be exposed via ATK object or text attributes in the form of css.attrname=value. A text attribute will be used instead of an object attribute whenever the current object is an AtkText. Only expose the differences in CSS with the parent, so that AT can see changes in CSS from container, which is what makes the CSS important for the user. Ancestor collection will help AT needs computed style.
  7. Dynamic content roles assigned by authors: Like all attributes, dynamic roles and landmarks supplied by the autor will be available through an object attribute. For example, expect something like like "html:role = wairole:liveregion". In addition, the closest matching ATK role will be available via the normal mechanism. In the future, the role attribute may contain a space-separated list of roles. [ Aaron: I'm still hoping that PFWG does not move to multiple roles, it would be difficult to deal with ]
  8. Actions: Implement AtkAction directly on the object. AtkHyperlink::getObject() will return null when there is no action, but return self and implement AtkAction when there is one. AtkHyperlink::getObject() needs to return self to be compatible with legacy ATs (Gnopernicus, GOK) that don't expect the hyperlink to implement AccessibleAction. Modern ATs may also depend on this functionality to have common code to deal with both paradigms. (The API isn't changing, only the convention.)
  9. Scroll to (no bug filed, test and see if it works): we will ensure that a magnifier or other AT can scroll to any element by placing the caret at the start of the element. Scroll bars objects will also be implemented as siblings of the object with the scroll bars.
  10. Cross-node text selection: [Bill : ANSWER: See the AtkText interface docs, in particular the text-selection-changed events, and atk_text_get_selection and atk_text_get_nselections.]  [ Aaron :   how does this solve the problem where the selection can start in one AtkText and end in another? ]
  11. Value change events (bug 340672): we need to expose these, but we won't expose the old value. It's too difficult to get in Mozilla and there is no use case.

We will also implement tweaks to the way individual types of items are exposed:

  1. Tables (no bug, this may work already, need to test): AccessibleTable would be implemented on the <table> object, and the children could also be obtained by walking the regular hierarchy.
  2. Image maps (bug 340661): treat areas as link children of the image
  3. Images without alt text: (bug 277469) repair in the client.
  4. Links (bug 340665): expose as ATK_ROLE_LINK, and keep link text in parent AtkHypertext [ Aaron: need consistent rule for when to put child object text in parent -- why just links?]. Expose focus events using the normal focus event, not the link-selected event. To indicate visited links, use ATK_STATE_VISITED if it is available, otherwise use ATK_STATE_CHECKED.
  5. Forced line breaks (bug 340667): expose a <br> simply as a \n character in the accessible text
  6. Labels (bug 340668): expose ATK_ROLE_LABEL
  7. Static text (bug 340670) inserted by layout engine (not in DOM), such as list bullet text, or styled :before/:after text: expose a text attribute for it, "static" = true
  8. Headings (bug 340671): expose via ROLE_HEADING, and an object attribute called "heading level"
  9. Paragraphs and sections (bug 340671): Expose <p> as ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH.
  10. Sections (bug 340671):  Expose <div> as ATK_ROLE_SECTION
  11. Lists (bug 340671): expose using ATK_ROLE_LIST and ATK_ROLE_LISTITEM regardless of whether it's a form control or part of the document structure -- a document list will be ATK_STATE_READONLY
  12. Quotations (bug 340671): Expose <blockquote> as ROLE_SECTION with "html:tag=blockquote". [ Aaron: how can we expose inline quotes (<q>)?]
  13. Descriptions: use ATK_RELATION_DESCRIPTION_FOR/DESCRIBED_BY  when they become available
  14. Forms (bug 340671): use ATK_ROLE_FORM if decision makers agree to add that role. If not available, use ATK_ROLE_PANEL with "tag = html:form"
  15. Progress bars: Expose ATK_STATE_INDETERMINATE if the progress bar is in an indeterminate state. Or we may fail, or throw an exception when the value is requested in that case.
  16. Alerts (no bug, mutation events already fired but need testing, ancestor collection is an open issue): For now, use ordinary mutation events and don't do anything special for alerts. However, AT's will not be able to get this right without a new event for the ROLE_ALERT. For example, if an alert or liveregion was already there but the text inside changes, you may want to re-speak the region. In order to do that the AT needs to walk the ancestor chain to check for a ROLE_ALERT ancestor on every children-changed or text-changed event, which would be extremely slow. So we propose to modify the AT-SPI collection interface to allow ancestor collection, which would be useful for many cases (such as finding if an ancestor is editable or has focus).
  17. Document attributes (bug 340802): expose the URL, mime type and doc type via AtkDocument:;getDocumentAttributes

ADVANTAGES

  1. Document structure exposed. Screen reader can get info it needs.
  2. Simplfies implementation both for Gecko and for screen readers
  3. Backwards-compatible with GOK
  4. Synchronizes ATK implementation with MSAA implementation, making an implementation for advanced text interfaces on Windows much easier down the road, by allowing reuse of all the classes which implement special interfaces (text, tables, etc.). With this huge difference removed, most of the important code to implement those interfaces can be moved into the cross-platform implenentation.

MOZILLA IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

HTML allows almost anything, anywhere. For example, almost anything can have text inside and embedded objects within it (exception: images and some form controls), and thus would need to implement AtkText and AtkHypertext. In addition, almost anything can be embedded within another object that contains text, and thus can be an AtkHyperlink. Therefore these interfaces must be implemented in the base accessible  (nsAccessible) or base HTML accessible (nsHTMLAccessible -- TBD) class. QueryInterface() will need to support interfaces based on tests of what attributes and children the object has, not what kind of accessible it is. Because the results of QueryInterface() must be constant for the lifetime of an object (according to the rules of XPCOM), if any of these factors change, the accessible object must be invalidated and recreated when needed.

The implementation for new-atk will move the code from nsAccessibleText and nsAccessibleHyperText into nsHTMLaccessible. The nsIAccessibleText and nsIAccessibleHypertext interfaces will be supported on this object, and the associated node will be the container node, not the first text node as it is now. This will simplyify the code by removing delegation and using inheritence to append functionality. Further delegation will be removed as we remove the unncessary nsMai classes and implement the callbacks and logic on ns*AccessibleWrap classes.

All ATK specialization interfaces will be moved out of mozilla/accessible/public/atk and into mozilla/accessible/public (bug 340822). The implementations for these interfaces will move to cross-platform classes, away from accessible/src/atk. This will enable future extensions across platforms to take advantage of these interfaces.

We will need a new nsHTMLContainerAccessible which inherits from nsAccessibleWrap. nsBlockAccessible and nsLinkableAccessible would inherit from it.

ATK interfaces and what needs to be changed in Mozilla to support them with the new-atk methodology
ATK interface Mozilla XPCOM interface Implementation
AtkText nsIAccessibleText nsHTMLContainerAccessible, covers xul:label and xul:description as well, those use HTML frames to contain the text (bug 340829)
AtkEditableText nsIAccessibleEditableText nsXULTextboxAccessible, nsHTMLTextfieldAccessible, etc. (bug 340830)
Wiith Midas, anything can be editable. For that part, we would need to handle it in nsHTMLContainerAccessible.
AtkHypertext nsIAccessibleHyperText nsHTMLContainerAccessible, covers xul:label and xul:description as well (bug 340829, same as for AtkText)
AtkHyperlink nsIAccessibleHyperLink nsAccessible -- Anything can be embedded in HTML, even something from another namespace (bug 340833)
AtkValue nsIAccessibleValue nsAccessible -- anything can have a value via aaa:valuenow (bug 340825)
Also need to move atk/nsXULProgressMeterAccessibleWrap code into xul/nsXULProgressMeterAccessible
AtkTable nsIAccessibleTable nsHTMLTableAccessible (bug 340827)

EXAMPLES

Mapping between HTML and the ATK representation.

Each ATK accessible object is encapsulated in braces ("{}"), and meaningful ATK interfaces and attributes, including specializations, are represented as name/value pairs inside the braces.
For convenience, accessible text is shown merely as 'text="contents of the text"'.
* = Embedded object character (0xfffc), used when no text from the object will be inserted in the parent AccessibleHypertext

HTML content HTML source ATK representation
All objects support AtkObject and AtkComponent

This is a heading

This is a paragraph with an some image image in it.

This is another heading

<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>
This is a paragraph with an
<image src="image.gif"
alt="some image"/>
image in it.
</p>
<h2>This is another heading</h2>








{parent AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_HEADING, objattr="xhtml:tag=h1",
text-attributes="css:font-size=LARGER",
text="This is a heading"}
{parent AtkHypertext, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, attr="xhtml:tag=p"
text="This is a paragraph with an * image in it"}
{child AtkImage, AtkHyperlink, role=ATK_ROLE_IMAGE,
ImageDescription ="some image",
AccessibleName = "" [the HTML title attribute, if present]
hyperlink-range=[28,29]}
{parent AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_HEADING, objattr="xhtml-role:h2",
text-attributes="css:font-size=LARGE",
text="This is another heading"}










Hey!
Tell me something.

<p>Hey!<br>Tell me something.</p>
{parent AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, attr="xhtml:tag=p"}
text="Hey!\nTell me something"}


Hey!
Tell me something.
<a href="http://www.google.com">Hey!
<br>Tell me something.</a>
{parent AtkHyperlink, AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LINK
objattr="html:tag=a;link-type=anchor",
text="Hey!\nTell me something",
hyperlink-range=[depends on the containing context],
hyperlink-URI="http://www.google.com",
hyperlink-Object=AtkText}




Hey


Tell me something

<p>Hey</p><hr/>
<p>Tell me something</p>
{parent1 AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH,
 text="Hey"}
{parent2 role=ATK_ROLE_SEPARATOR,
 [note: AtkState doesn't include ATK_STATE_VERTICAL,
       to distinguish from vsep]
}
{parent3 AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, 
 text="Tell me something"}




You are a nice person.

<p>
You <em>are</em> a nice person.
</p>

{parent AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, attr="html:tag=p", 
 text="You are a nice person",
 attribute run for "are", with objattr="role = html:em", textattr="css:text-style=oblique"}

Here is a bartending site.

<p>
  Here is a
  <a href="http://foo.bar.com">
   bartending site
  </a>
.
</p>





{parent AtkHypertext, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, attr="html:tag=p"
  text="Here is a *.",
  attribute run for "bartending site." with textattr="link=true,    
  css:text-decoration=underline, css:color=(0,0,255)"}
   {child AtkText,  AtkHyperlink,
     role=ATK_ROLE_LINK, attr="html:tag=a, link-type:anchor",
     text="bartending site",
     hyperlink-indices=[10,11]
     hyperlink-URI="http://foo.bar.com"}







Here is a beer glassbartending site.

<p>
Here is a
<a href="http://foo.bar.com">
<image src="beerglass.GIF"
alt="beer glass"/>
bartending site
</a>
.
</p>







{parent AtkHypertext, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, attr="html:tag=p"
 text="Here is a *."

 attribute run for "bartending site." with textattr="link=true,    
  css:text-decoration=underline, css:color=(0,0,255)"}

   {child AtkHypertext, AtkHyperlink,
     role=ATK_ROLE_LINK,
     text="*bartending site"
           hypertext-indices=[10,11],


[not sure if we need to dup textattrs here, or add them to defaulttextattrs] ,
     hypertext-URI="http://foo.bar.com"}
         {grandchild AtkImage, AtkHyperlink
           role=ATK_ROLE_IMAGE, attr="html:tag=img, link-type=image"
        AccName/ImageDescription="beer glass",
             hyperlink-indices=[0,1]


        URI="beerglass.GIF"}
[don't know if the URIs should always be fully specified, or if omitting the base URI is OK
At the moment, not planning to do this, instead plan to expose repair text in the name if no alt/title exists ]









Here is a beer glass bartending site .

<p>
Here is a
<image src="beerglass.GIF"
alt="beer glass"/>
<a href="http://foo.bar.com">
bartending site
</a>
.
</p>







{parent AtkHypertext, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, attr="html:tag=p", 
  text="Here is a **."}
   {child AtkImage, AtkHyperlink,
     role=ATK_ROLE_IMAGE, attr="html:tag=img, link-type=image"
     AccName/ImageDescription="beer glass",
     hyperlink-indices=[10,11]
     hyperlink-URI="beerglass.GIF"}
   {child AtkText, AtkHyperlink, AtkAction,
    AtkHypertext, role=ATK_ROLE_LINK,
     action-names="activate",








[others?]
     attr="html:tag=a, link-type=anchor"
     text="bartending site",
     textattr=


[as in above examples]
     hypertext-indices=[11,22],
     hypertext-URI="http://foo.bar.com"}



<p>
<IMG SRC="sitemap.gif"
ALT="Site map"
USEMAP="#mymap">
<MAP NAME="mymap" title="site map">
<AREA HREF="1.html" ALT="Bar"
COORDS="5,5,95,195">
<AREA HREF="2.html" ALT="Baz"
COORDS="105,5,195,195">
<AREA HREF="3.html" ALT="Fu"
COORDS="205,5,295,195">
</MAP>
</p>











{parent AtkHypertext, role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH,
text="*"}
{child AtkImage, AtkHypertext, text=" ***", AtkHyperlink,
role=ATK_ROLE_IMAGE,
attr="html:tag=map",
ImageBounds=[entire map area]
AccName and ImageDescription="Site map"}
{grandchild AtkHyperlink, AtkAction,
action-names="click", role=ATK_ROLE_LINK,
attr="html:tag=area", hyperlink-URI="1.html", name="Bar"}
{grandchild AtkHyperlink, AtkAction,
action-names="click", role=ATK_ROLE_LINK,
attr="html:tag=area", hyperlink-URI="2.html", name="Baz"}
{grandchild AtkHyperlink, AtkAction,
action-names="click", role=ATK_ROLE_LINK,
attr="html:tag=area", hyperlink-URI="3.html", name="Fu"}
[note that the component bounds of the areas correspond to their rectangular bounding boxes]















  • This is a list item.
  • This is another list item.
<ul>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
<li>This is another list item.</li>
</ul>



{parent AtkObject, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST, attr="css:list-style-type=disc"}
{child AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
text="This is a list item.", attribute run "static" first 2 chars}
{child AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
text="This is another list item.", attribute run "static" first 2 chars}







[Bill: we should be able to support list-style=image, and "list-style-image=URL()", etc. this way.  In the above example, it's not clear whether the bullet should be a unicode char or just omitted and implied by the list style..  my guess is the latter (i.e. bullets don't appear in the text)]
  1. This is a list item.
  2. This is another list item.
<ol>
<li>This is a list item.</li>
<li>This is another list item.</li>
</ol>



{parent AtkObject, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST, attr="html:tag=ol, css:list-style-type:decimal"}
{child AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
text="1. This is a list item.", attribute run "static" first 3 chars}
{child AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
text="2. This is another list item.", attribute run "static" first 3 chars}





  • This is a list item
    • Nested item 1.
    • Nested item 2.

  • This is another list item.
<ul>
<li>
This is a list item.
<ul>
<li>Nested item 1</li>
<li>Nested item 2</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>This is another list item.</li>
</ul>










{parent AtkObject, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST, attr="html:tag=ul, css:list-style-type=disc"}
{child AtkHypertext, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
text="This is a list item.*"}
{grandchild AtkObject, AtkHyperlink, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST,
attr="html:tag=ul, css:list-style-type=circle, link-type=child",
hyperlink-indices=[20,21],
hyperlink-URI="", [Hmm, degenerate case here...] }
{great-grandchild AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM, attr="html:tag=li"
text="Nested item 1"}
{great-grandchild AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM, attr="html:tag=li"
text="Nested item 2"}
   {child AtkText, role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
text="This is another list item."}


[Note that unlike user interface ATK_ROLE_LIST objects, these lists don't
implement AtkSelection, and the list items' AtkStateSets do not include
ATK_STATE_SELECTABLE. There is a question here as to whether <ul> and <ol> elements
should always implement AtkText or not. I think it would be better if they did not, unless they had
non-empty text content, but this may prove impractical.]




















<form>
<div>
 <label for="self"/>
Tell me a little more:
</label>
</div>
<div>
<textarea>
I am a monkey with a long
tail. I like to swing from
trees and eat bananas. I've
recently taken up typing
and plan to write my memoirs.
</textarea>
</div>
</form>














{parent AtkObject, role=ATK_ROLE_FORM, text=""}
{child1 AtkObject, role=ATK_ROLE_SECTION? [or should we use ATK_ROLE_PANE?] }
{grandchild AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_LABEL,
ATK_RELATION_LABEL_FOR=child2,
text="Tell me a little more:"}
{child2 role=ATK_ROLE_SECTION?}
{grandchild AtkEditableText,
AtkRelation, AtkStateSet, AtkAction,
ATK_ROLE_ENTRY,
text="I am a monkey with ..."},
ATK_RELATION_LABELLED_BY=child1,
STATE_MULTILINE,
STATE_REQUIRED allowed}

[ attribute run over the portion of the text scrolled into view?
CONTROLLER_FOR/CONTROLLED_BY for the scrollbar/viewport?
Alternative would be to treat all the text content as though it were visible, but that's no good
for magnifiers and ATs for the mobility-impaired. Probably the textarea needs to be expanded somewhat,
or at least fitted with AtkActions for scrolling plus text attribution for determining what parts of the text are
currently scrolled into view, without the AT client having to resort to bounds checking in the
"screen review" fashion. This is, however, a general problem with multiline text in viewports.
The relatively new AtkText getBoundedRanges API reduces the pain somewhat since you can
feed it the AtkComponent bounds and it will give you back the visible text.]






















Check one or more:

<form aaa:describedby="checkhelp"> 
<p>
<span
x2:tag="wairole:description"
id="checkhelp">
Check one or more:
</span>
<input id="cb1" type="checkbox"/>
<label for="cb1">Red</label>
<input id="cb2" type="checkbox"/>
<label for="cb2">Blue</label>
<input id="cb3" type="checkbox"/>
<label for="cb3">Green</label>
</p>
</form>













{parent AtkObject,
role=ATK_ROLE_FORM,
attr="html:tag=form",
RELATION_DESCRIBED_BY=grandchild1,
text="?"}
{child AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_PARAGRAPH, attr="html:tag=p", text=""}
{grandchild1 AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_LABEL,
RELATION_DESCRIPTION_FOR=parent,
attr="html:tag=wairole:description"}
text="Check one or more:"}
{grandchild2 AtkAction,
AtkStateSet, role=ATK_ROLE_CHECK_BOX,
attr="html:tag=input", [and same with other elements, expose html:role]
[note also that these objects do NOT have accessible names, because they are labelled;
accessible-name would presumably come from the HTML title attribute or other attribute.
This is mainly to make it easier for ATs to avoid highly redundant speech in these cases.]



ATK_RELATION_LABELLED_BY=grandchild3}
{grandchild3 AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_LABEL, text="Red",
ATK_RELATION_LABEL_FOR=grandchild2}
{grandchild4 AtkAction,
AtkStateSet, role=ATK_ROLE_CHECK_BOX,
ATK_RELATION_LABELLED_BY=grandchild5}
{grandchild5 AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_LABEL, text="Blue",
ATK_RELATION_LABEL_FOR=grandchild4}
{grandchild6 AtkAction,
AtkStateSet, role=ATK_ROLE_CHECK_BOX,
ATK_RELATION_LABELLED_BY=grandchild7}
{grandchild7 AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_LABEL, text="Green",
ATK_RELATION_LABEL_FOR=grandchild6}

[RFE: add ATK_RELATION_DESCRIBED_BY
and ATK_RELATION_DESCRIPTION_FOR to match MSAA/DHTML. Also, I thought we had
ATK_ROLE_FORM, but it seems not to be there. Did I miss something?]
































<form>
<label for="beverage">
Make a selection:
</label>
<select id="beverage">
<option>Water</option>
<option>Wine</option>
<option>Whiskey</option>
</select>
</form>









{parent role=ATK_ROLE_FORM?}
{child AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_LABEL,
ATK_RELATION_LABEL_FOR=child,
text="Make a selection:"}
{child AtkAction,
AtkStateSet, AtkSelection,
attr="html:tag=select",
role=ATK_ROLE_COMBO_BOX,
ATK_RELATION_LABELLED_BY}
{grandchild,
AtkText,
  AtkStateSet=...SELECTABLE, SELECTED...,
attr="html:tag=option",
role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM, text="Water"}
{grandchild,
AtkText,
  AtkStateSet=...SELECTABLE...,
attr="html:tag=option",
role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM, text="Wine"}
{grandchild AtkText,
AtkStateSet=...SELECTABLE...,
role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
attr="html:tag=option",
text="Whiskey"}

[note that because the entry field is not editable, but just displays the current
selection, I think it should not be exposed (especially since it represents a node
which is not present in the HTML DOM. The list items need not implement AtkAction,
since the AtkSelection interface is used by the client to select among them.]




























Which sports do you like?

<form>
<label for="sports">
Which sports do you like:
<br>
<select id="sports"
multiple="multiple"
size="3">
<option>
<img src="beerglass.gif"
alt="Beer"/>
Baseball
</option>
<option>Basketball</option>
<option>Football</option>
</select>
</label>
</form>















{parent role=ATK_ROLE_FORM?}
{child1 AtkText,
role=ATK_ROLE_LABEL,
ATK_RELATION_LABEL_FOR=child2,
text="Which sports do you like:\n*"}
{child2 AtkObject,
accessible-name="sports" [not sure exposing the id is a good idea though],
AtkSelection, AtkHyperlink,
AtkStateSet=...MULTISELECT...
attr="html:tag=select",
role=ATK_ROLE_LIST,
ATK_RELATION_LABELLED_BY=child2}
{grandchild1,
AtkHyperText,
  AtkStateSet=...SELECTABLE, SELECTED...,
attr="html:tag=option",
role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM, text="*Baseball"}
{great-grandchild AtkImage, AtkHyperlink,
role=ATK_ROLE_IMAGE,
attr="html:tag=img, link-type=image",
hyperlink-URI="beerglass.gif",
hyperlink-indices=[0,1]}
{grandchild2,
AtkText,
  AtkStateSet=...SELECTABLE...,
attr="html:tag=option",
role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM, text="Basketball"}
{grandchild3 AtkText,
AtkStateSet=...SELECTABLE...,
role=ATK_ROLE_LIST_ITEM,
attr="html:tag=option",
text="Football"}































To do: HTML table example
To do: DHTML role example