- From: Tim Lacy <timla@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:42:01 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Good and bad news, all of which I will deny if asked: 1) We've already built this capability into Narrator. If you are running W2K, you can play around with it. Theoretically, it should be doable to put that functionality in a stand-alone utility (so you'd have your screen reader and 'mouse-follows-focus' behavior). I have no idea if we'd want to do that, but will look into it. 2) This does not fix the problem, in particular on microsoft.com. You do get the menu, but because that sub menu is appended to (not inserted in) the tab order, your mouseover follows the focus and the submenu disappears. It occurs to me, then, that the more better way would be to a) inform the user that this link goes to a script-thingie, allowing them to b) send a mouse-over via the keyboard to activate the script-widget if they so choose. I'm quite certain also that the browser folks do not want to do any more repair, and this one is really complex. Tim Lacy Accessibility Program Manager Accessibility & Disabilities Group http://enable http://www.microsoft.com/enable
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