[pygtk] what are the attributes for making widgets accessible to screen readers?

[Willie Walker]

Hi Krishnakant:

Setting up a mnemonic (e.g., Alt+f for the "First name:" label of a text
area) usually ends up with the proper label for/by relations being made.

Hope this helps!

Will

On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 18:51 +0530, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> hello all,
> I am a totally blind person developing an application using python.
> the gui is made obviously in pygtk.
> but strangely enough there is a diffference in behaviour when I run
> other pygtk applications and mine with the same screen reader on
> gnome.
> for example when I tab around in a gtk frame containing all widgets
> like text entry or combo boxes, my screen reader does not read the
> lable associated with that respective widget.
> for example if there is a lable "first name:" followed by a text
> entry, my screen reads "text" and not "full name: text".
> this is only with the gui which I am developing.
> I don't find this a problem with most of the other applications in gnome.
> are there any attributes which I have failed to set on a widget to
> associate the lable and the widget?
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
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