- From: Gerald G. Weichbrodt <gerald.g.weichbrodt@ived.gm.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:19:00 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Here's another thought on the "OnFocus" and related issues. Screen readers are increasingly providing the ability to walk through a document as if one were reviewing a document in a word processor. This means that you can get to a link either by tabbing or by cursoring. Then there are mechanisms for building lists of links to permit getting to a link or activating a link without having to view the full page to get there (wherever "there" might be). I'm a little uncomfortable with having an OnFocus event trigger automatically whenever I might "walk" across the text that had the mouse-over, but at the same time I wonder if "mouse-overable" links are always available in the list of things one can tab to. Perhaps screen readers need the ability to "snap" the focus to the point where one's text cursor is located provided that point in the text is capable of receiving the focus? or is there another way to look at it? At the moment it seems like you could have a text cursor position, a focus, and then the ability to activate the object at the focus, probably by pressing <Return>. Does this bring up any issues that haven't been discussed thus far? Cheers, Jerry Weichbrodt
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