Re: Automatic submission of forms and screen changes

Sounds good to me.

-Kerstin

Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:

> Of course,  sighted people could think it was entirely predictable.  
> This would be a good candidate for an example in the guidelines.
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> Gregg
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> Director - Trace R & D Center
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerstin Goldsmith [mailto:kerstin.goldsmith@oracle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:47 PM
> To: gv@trace.wisc.edu
> Cc: 'John M Slatin'; 'Loretta Guarino Reid'; 'Wendy A Chisholm'; 
> 'w3c-wai-gl'
> Subject: Re: Automatic submission of forms and screen changes
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> Gregg/John/Loretta/Wendy:
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> Thanks for the responses - I think Loretta was right, John was right, 
> too, and then Gregg found the issue addressed in Checkpoint 3.4 
> (predictable). The issue was indeed drop-down lists (or other 
> controls) that fire selections when users walk through, or arrow 
> down/up, those selections, instead of only firing the event 
> (selection) when the user has explicitly finished choosing.  I think 
> there are still ways of scripting such lists where the ALT ARROW DOWN 
> does not work in all cases, and those cases (I believe) should be 
> discouraged.  From reading 3.4, I think the issue is addressed by 
> telling users to at least let the user know when content/context is 
> going to change.  Thanks, Gregg.
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> Cheers,
> -Kerstin
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> Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
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>I would think that would be covered by the one talking about predictable
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>behaviors.   Not predictable if you cannot see that you are on the last one.
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>Gregg
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>Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
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>Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
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>Director - Trace R & D Center 
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>University of Wisconsin-Madison 
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>From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org> [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
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>Of John M Slatin
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>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:59 PM
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>To: Loretta Guarino Reid; Wendy A Chisholm
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>Cc: Kerstin Goldsmith; w3c-wai-gl
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>Subject: RE: Automatic submission of forms and screen changes
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>I think Loretta's right-- this issue sounds like it has to do with
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>things like onChange events, where the script fires the instant focus
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>moves to an item in a select list.  (Kirsten, is this right? Or when you
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>mentioned menus etc., were you thinking of other elements?)
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>onChange events might come under the checkpoint, however.  They can be
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>successfully operated from the keyboard provided that (a)the user knows
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>the keystrokes for opening a pulldown menu (alt+downarrow), and (b) that
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>the user uses that keystroke *before* trying to arrow down into the list
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>without opening it first.  (This doesn't work if the list is already
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>open, for example if it's a 5-line list with only 5 items in it; then it
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>fires the instant the downarrow is pressed.)
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>John
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>-----Original Message-----
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>From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lguarino@adobe.com] 
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>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:46 pm
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>To: Wendy A Chisholm
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>Cc: Kerstin Goldsmith; w3c-wai-gl
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>Subject: Re: Automatic submission of forms and screen changes 
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>Wendy,
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>  I thought that the issue was with forms that would automatically
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>submit 
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>themselves when the last field was filled in. This is different from
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>making 
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>sure things can be activated via the keyboard.  And I'm not sure any of
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>the 
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>current checkpoints covers this situation.
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>  Loretta
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>>Hello Kerstin,
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>>I think that checkpoint 2.1 (All functionality is operable at a 
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>>through a keyboard or a keyboard interface) [1] and its required
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>>criterion address part of this issue - "Ensure that menus and other 
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>>"without causing form submission or screen changes."  I think it is
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>>that if you design something to work with a keyboard or keyboard
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>>it ought to work *well* but we might want to be more explicit. Perhaps
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>>second success criterion that says, "operating the functionality
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>>keyboard or keyboard interface works in a way that is logical for the 
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>>keyboard user."  I'm not sure how to make this less subjective ("is
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>logical 
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>>for the keyboard user" is not testable), but here's a starting point
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>if we 
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>>Are these [2] the NFB guidelines you are referring to?
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>>Thoughts?
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>>--wendy
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>>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#keyboard-operation
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>>[2] http://www.nfb.org/tech/webacc.htm
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>>At 12:31 AM 6/26/2003, Kerstin Goldsmith wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Question: the NFB put together a list of guidelines for the web, and 
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>>>one
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>>>of them seems quite pertinent;  I know that we have run into it in
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>>>ways, and it's definitely disorienting for a vision-impaired user.  I
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>>>wondering where similar language is found in the current WCAG 2.0
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>draft, 
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>>>if at all.  If it's not there, does anyone have any thoughts on the 
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>>>requirement?
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>>>"Ensure that menus and other navigation controls can be operated 
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>>>without
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>>>causing form submission or screen changes."  For us, there has to at
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>>>be some warning to the user, or there has to be some kind of user
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>action 
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>>>required before form submission or screen change.
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>>>I tried to find this under Guideline 2 somewhere, but maybe it's too 
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>>>late
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>>>at night for that?  <smile>
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>>>Thanks for any guidance/thoughts,
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>>>-kerstin
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>>--
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>>wendy a chisholm
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>>world wide web consortium
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>>web accessibility initiative
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>>http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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