Re: [WICD] focusable child elements / Action-383

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:54:56 +0200, Timur Mehrvarz <timur.mehrvarz@web.de>  
wrote:
>>> WICD Core assumes identical treatment, for as long as (scalable) child  
>>> elements are not explicitly made focusable.
>>
>> Could you please elaborate on "explicitly made focusable"?
>
> How about..
>
> "For a child element to become focusable, it must advertise itself as  
> being focusable."
>
> Agents should make child elements explicitly focusable, only if they  
> require focus. (If they are interactive or contain links or whatever.)  
> Elements that do not require focus (such as bitmap images and non  
> interactive SVG) should - by default - not receive focus.

So I agree it would be if all UAs followed the same model and I hope they  
do so for the majority of the cases, but we shouldn't prevent UAs from  
coming up with alternative (default) UIs if they so desire. I guess a RFC  
2119 SHOULD would cover that, but I'm not entirely sure.


> With this, authors can make use of bitmap images and non interactive SVG  
> elements, purely for style purposes. Without bringing down the usability  
> of their documents at the same time.
>
> Agents may, of course, provide an alternative rendering mode, in which  
> also non interactive SVG elements become focusable. But this should then  
> probably also include bitmap images. (Btw, this is meant by "child  
> elements must be treated like bitmap images". Not sure if this answers  
> your question.)

The problem I have with "child elements must be treated like bitmap  
images" is that it seems to assume some default treatment for bitmap  
images that isn't really clear from the text.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Sunday, 25 June 2006 10:59:33 UTC