New properties for StatusNotifierItem: Accessible Label (1/3)

Mon Feb 7 19:13:01 CET 2011

On Monday, February 7, 2011, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > > What would help is if the tooltip was using semantic markup, instead of
> > > a subset of html. Think about something like this:
> > > 
> > > <tooltip>
> > > 
> > >   <title>Amarok</title>
> > >   <icon src="amarok.png" alt="Amarok"/>
> > >   <body>Currently playing: Qt 4 dance by Trolltech</body>
> > > 
> > > </tooltip>
> > > 
> > > With such a format, it would be possible to extract meaningful
> > > information for a11y purpose.
> > > 
> > > Heck, this could even be somehow standardized to also work for
> > > notifications (/me looks at this thread slowly drowning into markup
> > > bikeshed)
> > 
> > title and icons are already outside the body in the spec and the title
> > can't have html
> > th tooltip is a single proprty, that is a struct unfolded as this
> > icon (name or binary dump as usual)
> > title (short, plain text, must be meaningful and always present)
> > subtitle (optional, can have html)
> 
> Ohhh... my memory is failing me. Indeed, tooltips are actually not a single
> field. With this in mind, I agree using the tooltip title should be good
> enough. What do you think, Ted?

i don't believe Ted is on the list. you'll need to CC him, i think.

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