> > Yeah, in talking to the a11y folks they like tooltips, but they really > > wanted another label as sometimes the tooltips don't describe the icon > > enough for a blind user to know what it means. > > this is true for traditional tooltips, but the ones in a SNI are not like > those tooltips at all: they have titles, subtext, etc. they are supposed to, > in an SNI, be fully descriptive. are the a11y folks aware of those > differences between SNI tooltips and "normal" ones on e.g. pushbuttons? > > what this denotes to me is that maybe we need to revamp the documentation > around tooltips (and as marco pointed out on irc earlier today, perhaps that > was an unfortunate name to choose in the spec :/ ) so that this is very > clear to app devs too.
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) Aurélien _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
