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authorGeir Vattekar <geir.vattekar@nokia.com>2011-03-24 12:15:00 (GMT)
committerGeir Vattekar <geir.vattekar@nokia.com>2011-03-24 12:15:00 (GMT)
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Doc: Work on a11y docs
Task-number: QTBUG-8078
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/frameworks-technologies/accessible.qdoc57
-rw-r--r--doc/src/snippets/accessibilityfactorysnippet.cpp5
-rw-r--r--doc/src/snippets/accessibilitypluginsnippet.cpp6
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/frameworks-technologies/accessible.qdoc b/doc/src/frameworks-technologies/accessible.qdoc
index e7bf171..3f63353 100644
--- a/doc/src/frameworks-technologies/accessible.qdoc
+++ b/doc/src/frameworks-technologies/accessible.qdoc
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@
An application does not usually communicate directly with
assistive tools but through an assistive technology, which is a
bridge for exchange of information between the applications and
- the tools. Information about user interface elements, such
- as buttons and scroll bars, is exposed to the assistive technologies.
- Qt supports Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) on Windows and
- Mac OS X Accessibility on Mac OS X.
- On Unix/X11, support is preliminary. The individual technologies
- are abstracted from Qt, and there is only a single interface to
+ the tools. Information about user interface elements, such as
+ buttons and scroll bars, is exposed to the assistive technologies.
+ Qt supports Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) on Windows, Mac
+ OS X Accessibility on Mac OS X, and AT-SPI on Unix/X11. On
+ Unix/X11, support is preliminary. The individual technologies are
+ abstracted from Qt, and there is only a single interface to
consider. We will use MSAA throughout this document when we need
to address technology related issues.
@@ -333,10 +333,16 @@
\section2 QAccessibleWidget Example
Instead of creating a custom widget and implementing an interface
- for it, we will show how accessibility can be implemented for one of
- Qt's standard widgets: QSlider. Making this widget accessible
- demonstrates many of the issues that need to be faced when making
- a custom widget accessible.
+ for it, we will show how accessibility is implemented for one of
+ Qt's standard widgets: QSlider. The accessible interface,
+ QAccessibleSlider, inherits from QAccessibleAbstractSlider, which
+ in turn inherits QAccessibleWidget. You do not need to examine the
+ QAccessibleAbstractSlider class to read this section. If you want
+ to take a look, the code for all of Qt's accessible interfaces are
+ found in src/plugins/accessible/widgets. Here is the
+ QAccessibleSlider's constructor:
+
+ \snippet doc/src/snippets/accessibilityslidersnippet.cpp 0
The slider is a complex control that functions as a
\l{QAccessible::}{Controller} for its accessible children.
@@ -346,8 +352,6 @@
using a controlling signal, which is a mechanism provided by
QAccessibleWidget. We do this in the constructor:
- \snippet doc/src/snippets/accessibilityslidersnippet.cpp 0
-
The choice of signal shown is not important; the same principles
apply to all signals that are declared in this way. Note that we
use QLatin1String to ensure that the signal name is correctly
@@ -507,10 +511,10 @@
plugin template, and the library containing the plugin must be
placed on a path where Qt searches for accessible plugins.
- We will go through the implementation of \c SliderPlugin, which is an
- accessible plugin that produces interfaces for the
- QAccessibleSlider we implemented in the \l{QAccessibleWidget Example}.
- We start with the \c key() function:
+ We will go through the implementation of \c SliderPlugin, which is
+ an accessible plugin that produces the QAccessibleSlider interface
+ from the \l{QAccessibleWidget Example}. We start with the \c key()
+ function:
\snippet doc/src/snippets/accessibilitypluginsnippet.cpp 0
@@ -521,13 +525,12 @@
\snippet doc/src/snippets/accessibilitypluginsnippet.cpp 1
- We check whether the interface requested is for the QSlider; if it
- is, we create and return an interface for it. Note that \c object
- will always be an instance of \c classname. You must return 0 if
- you do not support the class.
- \l{QAccessible::}{updateAccessibility()} checks with the
- available accessibility plugins until it finds one that does not
- return 0.
+ We check whether the interface requested is for QSlider; if it is,
+ we create and return an interface for it. Note that \c object will
+ always be an instance of \c classname. You must return 0 if you do
+ not support the class. \l{QAccessible::}{updateAccessibility()}
+ checks with the available accessibility plugins until it finds one
+ that does not return 0.
Finally, you need to include macros in the cpp file:
@@ -536,9 +539,9 @@
The Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN2 macro exports the plugin in the \c
SliderPlugin class into the \c acc_sliderplugin library. The first
argument is the name of the plugin library file, excluding the
- file suffix, and the second is the class name. For more information
- on plugins, consult the plugins \l{How to Create Qt
- Plugins}{overview document}.
+ file suffix, and the second is the class name. For more
+ information on plugins, you can consult the plugins \l{How to
+ Create Qt Plugins}{overview document}.
You can omit the first macro unless you want the plugin
to be statically linked with the application.
@@ -555,7 +558,7 @@
\l{QAccessiblePlugin::}{create()} - a QString and a QObject. It
also works the same way. You install the factory with the
\l{QAccessible::}{installFactory()} function. We give an example
- of how to create a factory for the \c SliderPlugin class:
+ of how to create a factory for the \c QAccessibleSlider interface:
\snippet doc/src/snippets/accessibilityfactorysnippet.cpp 0
\dots
diff --git a/doc/src/snippets/accessibilityfactorysnippet.cpp b/doc/src/snippets/accessibilityfactorysnippet.cpp
index a378db7..6dc6b2a 100644
--- a/doc/src/snippets/accessibilityfactorysnippet.cpp
+++ b/doc/src/snippets/accessibilityfactorysnippet.cpp
@@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ QAccessibleInterface *sliderFactory(const QString &classname, QObject *object)
{
QAccessibleInterface *interface = 0;
- if (classname == "QSlider" && object && object->isWidgetType())
- interface = new SliderInterface(classname,
- static_cast<QWidget *>(object));
+ if (classname == QLatin1String("QSlider") && object && object->isWidgetType())
+ interface = new QAccessibleSlider(static_cast<QWidget *>(object));
return interface;
}
diff --git a/doc/src/snippets/accessibilitypluginsnippet.cpp b/doc/src/snippets/accessibilitypluginsnippet.cpp
index a7e25f0..5c28468 100644
--- a/doc/src/snippets/accessibilitypluginsnippet.cpp
+++ b/doc/src/snippets/accessibilitypluginsnippet.cpp
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ public:
//! [0]
QStringList SliderPlugin::keys() const
{
- return QStringList() << "QSlider";
+ return QStringList() << QLatin1String("QSlider");
}
//! [0]
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ QAccessibleInterface *SliderPlugin::create(const QString &classname, QObject *ob
{
QAccessibleInterface *interface = 0;
- if (classname == "QSlider" && object && object->isWidgetType())
- interface = new AccessibleSlider(classname, static_cast<QWidget *>(object));
+ if (classname == QLatin1String("QSlider") && object && object->isWidgetType())
+ interface = new QAccessibleSlider(static_cast<QWidget *>(object));
return interface;
}