<AWT Dev> RFR: 8256111: Create implementation for NSAccessibilityStaticText protocol

[Alexander Zuev]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:19:03 GMT, Pankaj Bansal <pbansal at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Create implementation for NSAccessibilityStaticText protocol
> 
> For testing that Label accessibility works fine, I have used something like https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/components/LabelDemoProject/src/components/LabelDemo.java. I also tried few other labels with html text. I have verified that the Voice Over output for JLables is same before and after this change.
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> The class CommonTextAccessibility has most of the code taken from JavaTextAccessibility. Only the functions needed for StaticTextAccessibility have been taken as of now. Few more (not all) functions will be added to this class from JavaTextAccessiblity when work is done for NavigableStaticText or TextField, TextArea, Text, Password etc accessibility roles.
> 
> I could not see AccessibleRole.HYPERLINK or "hyperlink" role being used anywhere. As we are reworking the implementation, I have included both roles "label" and "hyperlink" as of now.

src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/a11y/CommonTextAccessibility.h line 39:

> 37: - (NSString *)accessibilityValueAttribute;
> 38: - (NSRange)accessibilityVisibleCharacterRangeAttribute;
> 39: - (NSString *)accessibilityStringForRangeAttribute:(NSRange)parameter;

Just wondering: here you don't include nullability flags, but in StaticTextAccessibility you do. Any reason why such inconsistency?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2147