Component Name: CheckBox
States: Checked and Not-Checked

 

Description

A component that is typically displayed as a box that can be "checked" or "not-checked". A CheckBox MenuItem is a combination of a menu item with a check box. Traditionally one of the main differneces in application of CheckBoxes vs. RadioButtons is that 1) you can navigate to a CheckBox without activating it and 2) more than one CheckBox in a series can be activated at a time. To "not-check" a CheckBox, a computer user has to perform that function.

Below is an example of a CheckBox MenuItem. Visually a small hollow box appears to the left of the text description/function. In this case it is "Show ToolTips" which is checked in the Options Menu.

 

example fo Swing Set CheckBox MenuItem

 

Illustrated below, are various ways the current Swing Set depicts CheckBoxes. There are "familiar" items such as Text CheckBoxes and Image CheckBoxes, but in each case, more than one item is selected or "ehecked" and there are items which reamin "not-checked" in each series.

 

examples of Swing Set CheckBoxes

 

 

Component Name: CheckBox - Checked

Navigation

  1. Required navigation sound effect. navigate.wav
  2. Optional disabled sound effect. disabled.wav
  3. Optional combined component ID and state information sound effect. checkbox_check.wav
  4. Required name/title of component as speech.<checkbox label> [Alternate: "no label"].
  5. Optional role as speech. <CheckBox> [Alternate: "unknown object"].
  6. Optional state as speech. "checked" [Alternate: "status unknown"].

Activation

  1. Required activation sound effect. checkbox_notchk.wav
  2. Required name/title of component as speech.<checkbox label> [Alternate: "no label"].
  3. Optional role as speech. <CheckBox> [Alternate: "unknown object"].
  4. Required new state of component, as speech. "not checked" [Alternate: "status unknown"].

"Where Am I?"

  1. Optional disabled sound effect. disabled.wav
  2. Optional combined component ID and state information sound effect. checkbox_check.wav
  3. Required name/title of component as speech.<checkbox label> [Alternate: "no label"].
  4. Optional role as speech. <CheckBox> [Alternate: "unknown object"].
  5. Optional state as speech. "checked" [Alternate: "status unknown"].

Additional Information (Control + shift + E)

  1. Hot Key – (if available) [Alternate: "no Hot Key available"] .
  2. Shortcut Keys – (if available) [Alternate: "no Shortcut Key available"] .

Component Name: CheckBox - Not Checked

Navigation

  1. Required navigation sound effect. navigate.wav
  2. Optional disabled sound effect. disabled.wav
  3. Optional combined component ID and state information sound effect. checkbox_notchk.wav
  4. Required name/title of component as speech.<checkbox label> [Alternate: "no label"].
  5. Optional role as speech. <CheckBox> [Alternate: "unknown object"].
  6. Optional state as speech. "not checked" [Alternate: "status unknown"].

Activation

  1. Required activation sound effect. checkbox_check.wav
  2. Required name/title of component as speech.<checkbox label> [Alternate: "no label"].
  3. Optional role as speech. <CheckBox> [Alternate: "unknown object"].
  4. Required new state of component, as speech. "checked" [Alternate: "status unknown"].

"Where Am I?"

  1. Optional disabled sound effect. disabled.wav
  2. Optional combined component ID and state information sound effect. checkbox_notchk.wav
  3. Required name/title of component as speech.<checkbox label> [Alternate: "no label"].
  4. Optional role as speech. <CheckBox> [Alternate: "unknown object"].
  5. Optional state as speech. "not checked" [Alternate: "status unknown"].

Additional Information (Control + shift + E)

  1. Hot Key – (if available) [Alternate: see below*] .
  2. Shortcut Keys – (if available) [Alternate: see below*] .

*If there is neither a hot key nor a shortcut key, the general error is sounded.

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Last updated 11/02/98 by Karen McCall