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// SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 FernTech
//! A node's description, computed from the nodes it is `described_by`.
//!
//! ## Why the framework computes it
//!
//! A `described_by` relation reaches no screen reader through AccessKit 0.25.
//! `accesskit_consumer-0.39.0` gives a node a description from its own
//! `description` property and nothing else (`node.rs:796-800`), unlike its name,
//! which it does assemble from `labelled_by` (`node.rs:774-793`). And no adapter
//! exports the relation: the AT-SPI relation set holds `ControllerFor` alone
//! (`accesskit_atspi_common-0.20.0/src/node.rs:960-977`), UIA answers
//! `ControllerFor` and never `DescribedBy` (`accesskit_windows-0.35.0/src/node.rs:
//! 1044`), and macOS links only `controls` (`accesskit_macos-0.27.0/src/node.rs:
//! 1161-1176`). So a field that points at its validation message is read as if it
//! pointed at nothing. This pass does what a browser's accessible-description
//! computation does with `aria-describedby`: it writes the text of every target
//! onto the node's `description`, after the node's own. That property is what
//! each platform reads: AT-SPI `Description` (`accesskit_atspi_common` `node.rs:
//! 46-48, 835-840`), UIA `FullDescription` (`accesskit_windows` `node.rs:415-421,
//! 1311`), macOS `accessibilityHelp` (`accesskit_macos` `node.rs:543-550`).
//!
//! The relation is kept beside it. Orca, the one reader that follows it, reads
//! the relation's targets only when the description is empty (Orca 46.1,
//! `orca/generator.py:463-464`: `get_description(obj) or
//! displayedDescription(obj)`), so a node carrying both is read once.
//!
//! ## What the readers do with a description
//!
//! - **Orca 46.1** reads it as focus arrives: a node newly focused is spoken
//! in the `unfocused` format (`orca/generator.py:227-231`), whose suffix
//! includes `description` (`orca/formatting.py:129`), with
//! `speakDescription` on by default (`orca/settings.py:243`).
//! It also **speaks a change to it** on the focused node, with no check that
//! the text is new: `onDescriptionChanged` compares against
//! `pointOfReference['description']`, a key nothing writes (the focus handler
//! stores `'descriptions'`), and presents any non-empty text
//! (`orca/scripts/default.py:1316-1335`). Changes on other nodes are ignored.
//! - **NVDA** (source at nvaccess/nvda `f56b2e0d`) takes a UIA element's
//! description from `FullDescription`, falling back to `HelpText`
//! (`NVDAObjects/UIA/__init__.py` `_get_description`), and reports it on focus
//! (`presentation.reportObjectDescriptions`, default on). It maps no event to a
//! `FullDescription` change (`UIAHandler/__init__.py`
//! `UIAPropertyIdsToNVDAEventNames` lists `HelpText` only), so a change is not
//! spoken.
//! - **VoiceOver** is closed source. It reads `AXHelp` as a hint, after a pause
//! or on VO-Shift-H; that is documented behaviour, not verified here.
//! `accesskit_macos` posts no notification when a description changes
//! (`event.rs` `node_updated` posts title, value and selected-text changes).
//!
//! ## The order an update arrives in
//!
//! Every adapter hears an update through `accesskit_consumer`, which reports
//! the nodes added and changed first and the focus move after them
//! (`tree.rs:640-673`). So an announcement, and a description change on the
//! node focus is leaving, both reach a reader before it learns where focus
//! went. What the readers then do with them differs:
//!
//! - **Orca 46.1** stops speaking before it reads the new focus:
//! `locusOfFocusChanged` calls `presentationInterrupt`
//! (`orca/scripts/default.py:698-705`), which is `speech.stop()` and so a
//! speech-dispatcher cancel (`orca/scripts/default.py:2674-2682`,
//! `orca/speech.py:309-311`, `orca/speechdispatcherfactory.py:358-359`),
//! whenever `shouldInterruptForLocusOfFocusChange` says so, and for a focus
//! event it does unless one node is the other's named ancestor or controls
//! it (`orca/script_utilities.py:4125-4171`). An announcement made in the
//! update focus moves in is cut before it is heard. Orca still holds the
//! node focus is leaving as its focus while it handles that node's changes,
//! so it speaks a description change there (the check in
//! `orca/scripts/default.py:1316-1335` is against the focus it has, not the
//! one the update carries), and cuts that too. Read from the source, not
//! heard from a running Orca.
//! - **NVDA** does not stop: `event_gainFocus` reads the node with
//! `speakObject` and cancels nothing (`NVDAObjects/__init__.py:1204-1206,
//! 1365-1372`; `eventHandler.py` `doPreGainFocus` drops only speech queued
//! for an earlier focus), and a live region is a `ui.message`
//! (`NVDAObjects/__init__.py:1238-1253`). Both are heard, in order.
//!
//! ## Why a description does not always take the text at once
//!
//! A description is for arriving; a change is for a live region. Written
//! naively, the text reaches a reader twice, or not at all, in the moments that
//! matter most:
//!
//! - a field validates while the user is still in it (Enter, or an app setting
//! the error), its `ValidationStrip` announces the message, and the focused
//! field's description changes to the same message, which Orca speaks again;
//! - the user leaves that field, the message the description held back joins
//! it in the update focus moves in, and Orca starts saying it once more as
//! it leaves, only to cut it for the next field;
//! - focus is sent to the field at fault in the same update the message is
//! announced (the WCAG pattern of focusing the first error). NVDA says the
//! announcement and then the field, so a description holding the message too
//! says it twice; Orca cuts the announcement, so a description without the
//! message leaves nothing that says it.
//!
//! So:
//!
//! 1. **Only where the reader keeps an announcement through a focus move**, a
//! text some live region is announcing in this very update (a live node the
//! adapters see newly, re-worded or with a new politeness, the framework's
//! announcer included) is left out of the node focus is on and every node
//! it is inside. That is Windows, where NVDA keeps it. On AT-SPI Orca cuts
//! it, so the arrival is the one voice left and keeps the text. VoiceOver
//! is unverified and is treated as Orca is: a text left out of the arrival
//! and cut from the announcement is not heard at all, while one kept is at
//! worst heard twice, the second time as a hint after a pause. The
//! framework's announcer does not speak in an update that moves focus: it
//! holds its message for the next (see [`crate::announcer`]), where every
//! reader hears it after the arrival, so its text is left out of the
//! arrival on every platform.
//! 2. **A node focus was on or inside in the last delivered update** gains no
//! text in this one: not while focus stays, where Orca speaks the change,
//! and not as focus leaves it, where Orca starts to. It may lose one: a
//! message that has gone away is dropped, never read out as stale. A node
//! focus has left takes what it held back in the next update, which the
//! tree asks for itself; by then Orca's focus is elsewhere.
//!
//! A left-out text arrives the next time focus does. Rule 1 defers to a voice
//! saying the text at that moment, where that voice is known to be heard.
//! Rule 2 costs only a change Orca alone would have spoken, so on every
//! platform a message that must be heard as it appears needs a live region,
//! and one without it is heard on the next arrival.
use ;
use ;
use WidgetTree;
/// What a platform's screen reader does with an announcement made in the
/// update focus moves in, which decides rule 1 (see the module docs).
pub
/// What the last delivered update said, as far as this pass needs to know.
///
/// Kept by [`WidgetTree::sync_accessibility`], which is the only caller whose
/// update reaches a screen reader; a snapshot reads it and never writes it.
pub
/// The name every adapter announces for a live node: the value of a
/// `Role::Label` and the label of anything else, and neither in place of the
/// other (`accesskit_consumer` `node.rs:744-746`; see
/// [`crate::accessibility::announced_text`]). A name drawn through
/// `labelled_by` is not followed here, so a live region named that way is not
/// taken to be speaking, and rule 1 leaves its text in the arrival.
/// The text a node carries, for a description to quote: its name, or for a
/// node named from its value (a `Role::Label`, per `accesskit_consumer`
/// `node.rs:744-746`) its value, and failing that the other of the two. This
/// is what a target shows, not what an adapter would announce for it, which
/// is [`spoken_name`].
/// The text a relation target contributes: its own, or failing that the text
/// of what it contains, in reading order.
///
/// As in the accessible-name computation a browser runs for
/// `aria-describedby`, a target counts even when it is hidden, since pointing
/// at hidden text is how a description is kept off the reading path; what a
/// target contains counts only when it is not hidden. Text runs are skipped.
/// A node with text of its own stops the walk before its runs are reached, so
/// the runs met here belong to a node that carries its text in runs alone,
/// which is a document surface (the code editor, the log): its whole visible
/// text read out on every arrival is not a description, and a target meant to
/// be read says what it means as a name or a value.