Accessibility:XForms:Checkbox

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Exposed interfaces 3 Accessibility properties 3.1 nsIAccessible 3.2 Accessible children

[edit] Summary

Checkbox representation is used to show/change boolean data. It is used for XForms input element (see the docs).

[edit] Exposed interfaces

• nsIAccessible
• nsIAccessibleHyperText

[edit] Accessibility properties

[edit] nsIAccessible

• role - ROLE_CHECKBUTTON
• name - formed from value of underlying XForms label element
• description - formed from value of underlying XForms hint element
• state - formed from MIPs of instance node that XForms element is bound to
• value - current value of checkbox
• action names - check/uncheck

[edit] Accessible children

This presentation doesn't require any accessible children. But Mozilla XForms implementation allows input to have child elements.