1<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="interface_viewer_plugin"> 2 <info> 3 <link type="guide" xref="index#examining_a11y" /> 4 <title type="sort">2. Interface Viewer Plugin</title> 5 <link type="next" xref="validator_plugin" /> 6 <desc> 7 Examining your accessibility implementation 8 </desc> 9 <credit type="author"> 10 <name>Eitan Isaacson</name> 11 <email>eitan@ascender.com</email> 12 </credit> 13 <credit type="author"> 14 <name>Peter Parente</name> 15 <email>pparent@us.ibm.com</email> 16 </credit> 17 <credit type="author"> 18 <name>Aline Bessa</name> 19 <email>alibezz@gmail.com</email> 20 </credit> 21 <license> 22 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p> 23 </license> 24 </info> 25 <title>Interface Viewer Plugin</title> 26 27 <p> 28 The Interface Viewer Plugin shows the information and controls provided by the AT-SPI interfaces 29 present in each accessible item from the <link xref="desktop_tree_view">Application Tree View</link>. After 30 selecting an item, you can use this plugin to quickly review its supported interfaces, to retrieve 31 each interface's information, and to manipulate the item through all the interface’s methods. 32 </p> 33 34 <figure> 35 <title>Examining a Menu with the Interface Viewer Plugin</title> 36 <desc> 37 Given a selected item in the Application Tree View, all of its AT-SPI interfaces will be shown as sensitive 38 in the Interface Viewer Plugin. Those unsupported will appear grayed out, such as the Application 39 and Collection interfaces in the figure above. 40 </desc> 41 <media type="image" mime="image/png" width="800" height="450" src="figures/interface_viewer_plugin.png"> 42 <p>Given a selected item in the Application Tree View, all of its AT-SPI interfaces will be shown as sensitive 43 in the Interface Viewer Plugin. Those unsupported will appear grayed out, such as the Application and Collection 44 interfaces in the figure above.</p> 45 </media> 46 </figure> 47 48 <section id="running_interface_viewer"> 49 <title>Running the Interface Viewer Plugin</title> 50 <p> 51 The first step to run the Interface Viewer Plugin is to select an item in the <link xref="desktop_tree_view"> 52 Application Tree View</link>. After that, all AT-SPI interfaces covered by the plugin will be listed in the 53 plugin's panel. The interfaces implemented by the selected item will be sensitive, so you can click each one of 54 them to either retrieve their provided information or to interact with available methods. The following interfaces 55 can be explored in <app>Accerciser</app>, assuming the selected item implements them: 56 </p> 57 <list> 58 <item> 59 <p> 60 Accessible - This interface shows the selected item's child count (number of child widgets), description, states, 61 relations, and attributes. 62 </p> 63 </item> 64 <item> 65 <p> 66 Action - This interface shows all the actions that can be performed by the selected item. For each interface, 67 you will see its name, such as "press" or "click", followed by a description and a key binding, if there are 68 any. If you select an action, a "Perform action" button will become sensitive. Press this button to see the 69 item performing the selected action. 70 </p> 71 </item> 72 <item> 73 <p> 74 Application - This interface can be implemented by items with role "application". It is worth to point out that 75 items with role "application" not necessarily implement this interface. If the selected item implements it, the interface 76 will show its ID and, if there are any, its toolkit and version. 77 </p> 78 </item> 79 <item> 80 <p> 81 Component - This interface shows the selected item's absolute position (with respect to the desktop coordinate system), relative position (with respect to the window coordinate system), size, layer type, MDI-Z-order (a short integer indicating the 82 stacking order of the component in the MDI layer), and alpha (if alpha blending is used). 83 </p> 84 </item> 85 <item> 86 <p> 87 Document - This interface shows the selected item's document attributes and locale description, if there is one. 88 </p> 89 </item> 90 <item> 91 <p> 92 Hypertext - This interface shows a list with all the selected item's hypertext hyperlinks. For each hyperlink, the interface 93 provides its name, URI, start (the index in the hypertext at which the hyperlink begins) and end (the index in the hypertext 94 at which this hyperlink ends). 95 </p> 96 </item> 97 <item> 98 <p> 99 Image - This interface shows the selected item's description (or "no description" if unspecified), size, position 100 (with respect to the desktop coordinate system), and locale, if there is one. 101 </p> 102 </item> 103 <item> 104 <p> 105 Selection - This interface shows all selectable child items of the selected item. If the selected item is a menu bar 106 with options "File", "Edit", "View", and "Help", and all of them are selectable, then they will be listed in this 107 interface. If you click a listed option - "File", for example - and want to clear it, just press the "Clear" button 108 below the list. 109 </p> 110 </item> 111 <item> 112 <p> 113 Streamable Content - This interface shows the selected item's content types and their corresponding URIs. 114 </p> 115 </item> 116 <item> 117 <p> 118 Table - This interface shows the selected item's caption and summary, rows (number of rows), columns (number of columns), 119 selected rows (number of selected rows), and selected columns (number of selected columns). For a selected cell, the 120 interface shows its row's and column's header and extents. 121 </p> 122 </item> 123 <item> 124 <p> 125 Text - This interface shows the selected item's text content, that can be editable, and its attributes. The basic 126 attributes are offset (the number of characters the text has) and justification. To see possible CSS attributes, 127 click the "Include defaults" check box. 128 </p> 129 </item> 130 <item> 131 <p> 132 Value - This interface shows the selected item's current value, minimum allowed value, maximum allowed value, and 133 the minimum increment by which the value may be changed (or zero if this value cannot be determined). The current 134 value can be manually changed via a spin button. 135 </p> 136 </item> 137 </list> 138 </section> 139</page> 140