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Re: Comments on Mozilla content keyboard navigation proposal

From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:38:20 -0500
To: Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>, Catherine Laws <claws@us.ibm.com>
Cc: mozilla-accessibility@mozilla.org, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Message-Id: <7fdbcf7.8106593c.81a0300@expms1.cites.uiuc.edu>

1. Plug-ins
I like Catherines proposal of treating plug-ins as frame like
objects, and basically ignoring them unless someone uses the
frame command to navigate into the plug-in. 

2. HTML Element versus Visual Line Navigation with arrow keys
Some people will not be using screen readers with the "caret"
mode, so jumping between elements maybe confusing to them.  I
suggest having the un modified arrow keys move by line and a
modifier key move between elements like ALT+Down Arrow and
ALT+Up Arrow.  

Ideally ALT+Up Arrow and Alt+Down Arrow could be a
configuration option.  
Options
1. Do nothing
2. Navigate by elements
3. Navigate headings (H1-H6)
4. Navigate form controls

Users could then choose option they want through a config
setting.  Control+Up and Control+Down arrow could have the
same options.




Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
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