RFR: 8271071 accessibility of a table on macOS lacks cell navigation [v2]

Tue Sep 14 15:22:04 UTC 2021

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:30:40 GMT, Artem Semenov <github.com+36081106+savoptik at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.desktop/macosx/native/libawt_lwawt/awt/a11y/ColumnAccessibility.m line 52:
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>>> 50: }
>>> 51: 
>>> 52: - (NSArray *)accessibilityChildren
>> 
>> Could you please clarify why you removed this method?
>
> As the analysis of the a11y table hierarchy in numbers showed, this object has no children. From which I conclude that the columns should not have children.

It is not clear why we should manage columns without children. Would it be better if you investigate it separately, and here you do not remove this method?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5466