<Swing Dev> [12] JDK-7124293: [macosx] VoiceOver reads percentages rather than the actual values for sliders.

[shashidhara.veerabhadraiah at oracle.com]

Thanks Krishna for your review.

Thanks and regards,

Shashi


On 29/10/18 12:31 PM, Krishna Addepalli wrote:
> Yes, that would make for a good enhancement.
> This fix looks good to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Krishna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 12:29 PM
> To: Krishna Addepalli <krishna.addepalli at oracle.com>; swing-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: <Swing Dev> [12] JDK-7124293: [macosx] VoiceOver reads percentages rather than the actual values for sliders.
>
> Yes we can. Probably we may need an api change to collect the preference from the user and control the logic accordingly at the lower level. Of course I would want to address it separately in a different bug as this one is a vpat bug and it is good to close out this early.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Shashi
>
>
> On 29/10/18 12:25 PM, Krishna Addepalli wrote:
>> Good find Shashi.
>> Now that we know how to make the VO read out only values, is it worthwhile to explore an option to choose between values and percentages?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Krishna
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shashidhara Veerabhadraiah
>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 12:21 PM
>> To: swing-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: <Swing Dev> [12] JDK-7124293: [macosx] VoiceOver reads percentages rather than the actual values for sliders.
>>
>> Hi All, Please review a fix for the vpat bug.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7124293
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/7124293/webrev.00/
>>
>> The issue was that the slider used to voice out the percentages over the assistive technologies instead of the actual values. Percentages are not useful when setting the value for a slider thro' voice over. This fix fixes that problem and it voices out the value instead of the percentages. The fix is to send out only the current value instead of current value, min and max range values. This forces the platform to voice out only the value instead of the percentages.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> Shashi
>>