RE: using javscript to simulate mouse events

Move your mouse around the top or bottom edge of the browser window -
letters of the alphabet will appear. if you tab around the screen the
letters also appear. however when you tab to the two visible images/link in
the center of the screen the sound, that is played with a mouse over, does
not play.

Jim Allan, Webmaster & Statewide Technical Support Specialist
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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- -----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org]On
Behalf Of Jon Gunderson
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 1:17 PM
To: Charles McCathieNevile; WAI ER group; WAI UA group
Subject: Re: using javscript to simulate mouse events


Charles,
What exactly is suppose to happen when you navigate with the keyboard?
Jon


At 08:28 PM 1/12/2001 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>There is an example of a script at http://www.peepo.com that allows
keyboard
>navigation to work like mouse-based navigation, changing an effect that is
>stylistic. (This is a cool example of how this should be done, but also
shows
>the hassles of dealing with current browsers...)
>
>It occurs to me that the script could be generalised, so that instead of
>triggering a specific action, it triggers a mouseover / click / etc event.
>
>This could then be used in a browser as an implementation example for
>ensuring device-independent access to event triggers in HTML, which is
>important for accessibility, but as I understand it at risk for lack of
>implementation proof.
>
>Any takers for playing with this?
>
>Charles McCN
>
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
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College of Applied Life Studies
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