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Wednesday, September 19

Sep 25
3:50 PM
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4:05 PM
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howdy Ben
how can I help you today?
Ben K.
Hello!
I'm working on accessibility and have a few questions
I've been going through the app and I think that adding content descriptions and placing onclicklisteners in the right places should do most of the work.. is there anything else I should be focusing on?
Mark M.
don't forget to focus on focus :-)
Ben K.
haha
Mark M.
make sure your app is navigable with a pointing device (e.g., arrow keys)
4:10 PM
Mark M.
use stuff like android:nextFocusLeft and suh
4:10 PM
Mark M.
er, such
Ben K.
Ok, I've also been going through it with the talkback on
Mark M.
beyond that... are all of your widgets standard, or are you using some that you or third parties created?
Ben K.
I created a widget that is composed of a framelayout so I'm planning on setting the onclicklistener on the framelayout
whereas before it was on the imageview
Mark M.
you might need to raise some AccessibilityEvents, depending on what you are doing
Ben K.
Ok
I'm starting a new activity from the onclick method
My second question is: do ime options affect the focus of widgets in a layout?
Mark M.
I'm not an a11y expert, but what we've talked about here should get you most if not all of the way there
Ben K.
Ok
Mark M.
not that I am aware of
EditText should be focusable regardless
Ben K.
I've got username and password EditTexts along with a "submit" button. When I focus on the submit button and then double tap it goes back into the password button (directly above the submit button)
the focus
4:15 PM
Mark M.
I have no idea why a double-click would affect focus
does it do that in the emulator, or just some device?
Ben K.
I noticed it on the Nexus 7 in talkback mode (double click is supposed to execute the action)
There is another button below the submit button. When I double click on that, it carries out the "submit" action.
Mark M.
beats me
Ben K.
Ok
Weird
Mark M.
I need to spend some more time on a11y scenarios
Ben K.
It could make a good addition to the book
Mark M.
absolutely
Ben K.
Thanks for your time, have a good day!
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you too
5:00 PM
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Wednesday, September 19

 

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