[Tcl-bugs] [ tktoolkit-Bugs-415271 ] Requesting for MS accessibility feature

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Bugs item #415271, was updated on 2001-04-10 16:13
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Category: Win Window Operations
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Requesting for MS accessibility feature 

Initial Comment:

 Hi,

 I have been exchanging few emails with Jeff Hobbs and he suggested me to
 report to track this item for future release of Tcl/Tk.  Windows 2000 ships 
 with a magnifier utility (Program Menu->Accessories->Accessibility->Magnifier) 
 which allows for user can track (or focus) traversing GUI app windows via 
 Tab-key from keyboard and any text being entered through the keyboard.
 According Microsoft Windows 2000 logo certification requirement list, this is 
 an required functionality to be supported by Windows GUI application.

 Following URL explains more details about Windows 2000 logo certification:

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/certification/download.asp  
 
 In Section 3.4 of Server specification (Expose the location of the keyboard
 focus) explains which Win32 APIs can be used to add the magnifier support
 in the GUI application.   

 We (in NCR Corporation) have a Tcl/Tk application as part of Teradata RDBMS
 server package and it was failing this requirement.     Because Windows logo
 certifcation is somewhat new in Tcl/Tk community, it is no surprise that MS
 accessibility feature is not implemented in Tcl/Tk.  Actually the latest version
 of Java 1.3 does not support MS accessibility either.

 Could you please consider implementing MS accessibility feature into the
 Tk core in the future release ?   Note that this request only specific Windows
 platform only.
 
 Thanks,

 Moo Kim
 

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