microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Complete Support for ITextProvider and ITextRangeProvider
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Area: Accessibility
Area: Fabric
Area: Text
enhancement
New Architecture
Workstream: Accessibility
- Dominant language
- C++
- Stars
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- Forks
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- Avg merge
- 1d 13h
- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
Basic implementation of ITextProvider and ITextRangeProvider can be found in #14332. Several methods remain unimplemented. Waiting on accessibility results to determines which methods are most critical to accessibility compliance.
- TextProvider::GetSelection
- TextProvider::RangeFromChild
- TextProvider2::GetCaretRange
- TextProvider2::RangeFromAnnotation
- TextRangeProvider::Clone
- TextRangeProvider::Compare
- TextRangeProvider::ExpandToEnclosingUnit
- TextRangeProvider::FindAttribute
- TextRangeProvider::FindText
- TextRangeProvider::GetEnclosingElement
- TextRangeProvider::MoveEndpointByRange
- TextRangeProvider::MoveEndpointByUnit
- extRangeProvider::ScrollIntoView
- TextRangeProvider::RemoveFromSelection
- TextRangeProvider::Select
Other scenarios:
- Nested Text
- Other React Native components nested inside text
- Text expanding offscreen
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the basic ITextProvider and ITextRangeProvider implementation in issue #14332, then review the accessibility results to identify the most critical unimplemented methods. The work is complete when the selected provider methods and listed scenarios, including nested text and offscreen text, are supported.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, react-native
- Domain
- accessibility
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100