linebender / linebender/parley
Exposing the font family name to AccessKit
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- Rust
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Description
It's common for accessibility APIs to expose the font family name for each run of text. But unless I'm missing something, this information isn't available to Parley's layout code. Specifically, all that's available in the LayoutData struct is a Vec<FontData>, and FontData only has the font data itself, not a name. Any suggestions about how to solve this?
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Research direction
Start by tracing how LayoutData and its Vec are produced and consumed, then check how AccessKit receives text-run information. Determine where a font family name can be carried without losing existing font data, and verify that the accessibility output exposes the name for each text run.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- accessibility
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100