- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:58:23 -0500
- To: jax@opera.no, "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
- Cc: Debbie Spackman <debbie@opera.com>, Håkon <howcome@opera.no>
Response in JRG: At 01:35 AM 7/12/2001 +0200, Jonny Axelsson wrote: > > "1.Allow configuration so that moving the content focus to or from > > an enabled element does not automatically activate any explicitly > > associated event handlers." > > > >The informative Note that follows gives examples for HTML: > > > > "For instance, in this configuration for an HTML document, do not > > activate any handlers for the 'onfocus', 'onblur', or 'onchange' > > attributes. In this configuration, user agents should still apply > > any stylistic changes (e.g., highlighting) that may occur when > > there is a change in content focus." > >I just want a clarification here. Normal behaviour when an element gets a >focus is to activate onfocus and UI events and trigger the :active or :focus >pseudo-classes. We don't do that for keyboard access (e.g. A or TAB) >currently, and the checkpoint prevents us from doing in the future. > >Alternatively (preferably?) this is a toggle to be set either in our >accessibility panel or our javascript panel to turn off some (all?) events >triggered as a part of normal document navigation. There is no need for such >a toggle for CSS :active, :hover, :focus. JRG: The default behavior of a user agent should be to trigger 'onfocus', 'onblur' and 'onchange' in a device independent manner which would include keyboard commands that move focus to links. The guidelines ask for a configuration option to not have these event triggered automatically, but allow the user to manually trigger the events using additional commands. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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