New tests: GTK3 platform accessibility

Michael Weghorn m.weghorn at posteo.de
Fri Aug 4 06:09:15 UTC 2023


On 2023-08-01 19:30, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Platform accessibility (a11y) conformance tests for the GTK3 VCL [1] 
> have been merged a couple days ago.  This is a set of tests validating 
> that the a11y exposed to the platform on Linux using the GTK3 VCL is 
> coherent with the internal representation in LO.  This can catch (and 
> already had caught) issues in the VCL layer not correctly transmitting 
> data over -- and even more [2].  You can read a bit more on the 
> technical side of things on the wiki page [3].
> [...]
> [3] 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Accessibility_Unit_Tests#Platform_accessibility_tests

Thanks again, that's really great to have!

To mention it: Platform a11y tests are one of 3 ways that the a11y test 
framework written by Colomban provides to write Cppunit tests (or 
convert Java ones to C++). The other 2 are also described on the 
above-mentioned wiki page.
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