Add support for setting HelpText automation

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Last Updated: 15 Apr 2019 06:16 by ADMIN

Release R2 2019

Janice

Created on: 03 Dec 2018 11:18

Category: UI for WPF

Type: Feature Request

Add support for setting HelpText automation

Enable clients to set custom HelpText for the controls from the suite.

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ADMIN

Ralitsa

Posted on: 15 Apr 2019 06:15

Hello,

During this release (R2 2019), our team implemented the change for the following assemblies too:

Telerik.Windows.Cloud.Controls
Telerik.Windows.Controls.ConversationalUI
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Data
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Docking
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Expressions
Telerik.Windows.Controls.FileDialogs
Telerik.Windows.Controls.ImageEditor
Telerik.Windows.Controls.PdfViewer
Telerik.Windows.Controls.RibbonView
Telerik.Windows.Controls.RichTextBox
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Diagrams
Telerik.Windows.Controls.VirtualGrid

Regards,
Ralitsa
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ADMIN

Ralitsa

Posted on: 18 Feb 2019 11:21

Hi all,

By default, setting the AutomationProperties.HelpText property is not respected and the control returns a predefined string (the Class name) as help text. In order to apply the custom text for AutomationProperties.HelpText, you need to set the UseDefaultHelpText property to false:

Telerik.Windows.Automation.Peers.AutomationManager.UseDefaultHelpText = false;

The change will be included in R1 2019 SP1(2019.1.220) for the controls in the following assemblies:
Telerik.Windows.Controls
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Chart
Telerik.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization
Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Input
Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation
Telerik.Windows.Controls.ScheduleView

Regards,
Ralitsa
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ADMIN

Dilyan Traykov

Posted on: 05 Dec 2018 16:44

Hello,

Thank you all for your feedback. We also agree that improving the accessibility support of our controls should be a priority.

Please stay tuned as we will post any updates on the progress of the implementation here.

Regards,
Dilyan Traykov
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Sean

Posted on: 03 Dec 2018 21:47

This seems like a bug to me. Automation properties are built into the core WPFframework by Microsoft. Telerik are explicitly blocking the use of these properties, meaning these controls become confusing and difficult to use by users with vision impairment

Paul Reynolds

Posted on: 03 Dec 2018 21:39

This is critical for any software vendor given the AG Silver Task Force coming standards.

Also, I'm surprised this lack of support has not come up for the Silverlight code base (given shared) due to needing to comply with web accessibility standards?!